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Cassidy: Linux devotee tries to spread the word

Submitted by srlinuxx on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 16:51.

Larry Cafiero is sitting in his cluttered office in the Santa Cruz Mountains looking nothing like a revolutionary.

Friendly bearded face. Casual blue jeans. Comfy work shirt with the little penguin logo.

Yeah, penguin logo. See, Cafiero is a Linux guy. Maybe you know one — or a Linux woman. Maybe you know that to love Linux is to live Linux — that you don't just use free and open-source software, you embrace it and evangelize it. Some more than others.

For his part, Cafiero is leading a revolution in the redwood-ringed town of Felton. He's been inspired by others around the country and with them he's dubbed the effort "Lindependence 2008,'' a scheme hatched to turn Felton into an all-Linux enclave.

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re: Cassidy

Submitted by vonskippy on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 21:49.

the article wrote:
Linux is not just a technology. It's a belief system. It's about sharing and helping one another through vast user groups. It's about increasing access to computers among the poor. (The software is free and generally can run on older, as in surplus, computers.) It's about sticking it to the man — particularly the man in Redmond responsible for Microsoft's operating systems, which command 90 percent of the market.

Um no, it's just a OS. This concept, and the fantasy articles like this one spread, is why Linux has a single digit market share. Most people just "use" computers - they don't want to join a cult.

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