[243] in magellan
Re: Linux/Athena Discovery minutes from 14 July 1999
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (K. Ramm)
Thu Jul 29 00:14:08 1999
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG), linux-disc@MIT.EDU, magellan@MIT.EDU,
vkumar@MIT.EDU
From: kcr@MIT.EDU (K. Ramm)
Date: 29 Jul 1999 00:13:58 -0400
In-Reply-To: Mike Barker's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 19:10:58 -0400"
Message-Id: <uuslnc014ah.fsf@EMACS-MAKES-A-COMPUTER-SLOW.MIT.EDU>
Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU> writes:
> At 11:49 AM 7/28/99 -0400, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> <clip>
> :)"It doesn't run on my computer? But this is what my parents bought me
> :)when I left for MIT!"
> :)
> :) Publicity and education are the only tools here.
>
> Don't forget working with the MCC, NECX, and such. They are often the folks
> who recommend to the parents what to buy -- we may need to educate them.
The problem is that (according to the students I've talked about this)
parents want to _see_ the machine that they're purchasing for their
children, and aren't happy with the MCC/NECX approach to ordering the
machine to show up in a few weeks. This,in the case of a few people I
know personally, resulted in people who wanted to run linux or netbsd but
were stuck with Microsoft OSes due to cheap but proprietary hardware.
My understanding is that working with local over-the-counter vendors would
violate our agreements with NECX, so I think we're cleverly painted into a
corner on this one.
>
> mike
kcr
