Tonight Live: Microsoft Entering the Linux Biz and the Open CD Project

[ Thanks to Jeff
gerhardt for this link. ]

Tuesday, December 10th, 2002
from Chicago IL, home of Pan Fererra Candies
The makers of Lemon Heads and Red Hots.
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com

At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Jeff
Gerhardt, Doc Searls (Linux Journal), Arne Flones and Russ
Pavlicek; are back live tonight. We have a great show lined up
tonight on The Linux Show!!

Segment One- The News. WE ARE BACK!!!!! We will
cover THE HOT NEWS of the last few weeks tonight.
In particular, Microsoft’s predicted entry into the Linux Software
biz, Tim Perdue’s G-Forge, The Death of Comdex
(-), and more.

Links:

• The new kid in town: Enterprise Linux Forum
• MS/IDC claims that Windows has lower TCO than Linux http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,741730,00.asp
  and http://www.pcw.co.uk/News/1137417
• Sony Dumps Microsoft for StarOffice
  https://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-12-06-012-26-NW-BZ-DT
• And of general interest…..Get a V8.x boxed version (or a V9.0
  one-CD version) of Mandrake for just $12.50: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/refugee/

Segment Two- The Open CD Project– Using
Software for Windows to sell the Open Source model.

Tonight on the show we will be joined by Eric Penne, of The Open
CD Project. The OpenCD is a collection of high-quality Open Source
Software, and p[resented in the form of a CD. All of the programs
on the disc run under Windows; the disc is intended to be an Open
Source showcase. New users can try out Open Source software in the
comfort of their own, familiar operating system, rather than having
to take the drastic step of reformatting their hard drive to
install Linux.

Quoted from their web site,
Currently, the disc is aimed solidly at non-techies. The
primary audience is expected to consist mostly of people who use
computers regularly for their work, but are not power users. This
might be, for example, Jane from Accounting, who spends a lot of
time working on spreadsheets and checking her email. She can find
her way around the computer without too much trouble, but wouldn’t
know a kernel from a TCP/IP stack. By showing the benefits of Open
Source Software to users such as these, we hope to encourage its
adoption — in the workplace, in schools, and by
individuals.

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