Date: Monday, May 20, 2002 12:41 PM
From: Duncan, William ([email protected])
Subject: AOL: 'Linux for the Lame?'
This is so cool (read "so anti-Microsoft" :-). (AOL: 'Linux for the Lame?', Aug. 16, 2000) Linux is well on its way tobeing the standard embedded OS for so many products – why not a PC as well?
Most people don't care about their OS whether it's Linux or Windows. A lotof them would not know what an OS is – they just want to get their e-mail,
browse the Web, write and print an occasional document or picture. They wantAOL – anything else is too confusing.
PC manufacturers are looking to cut cost any way they can to make a sale.
Microsoft is trying to screw everybody.
Install Linux (free), AOL (free), StarOffice (I bet they could mass buy itreally cheap), remove anything confusing – and while you no longer have what anyone who really uses one would consider a computer, you now have a cheaponline appliance for the masses. As long as it's all plug and play, on AOL and no harder to operate than a PlayStation, it would be a winner.
I'd hate it – but my mother (read: completely computer illiterate) would loveit :-)
