Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 21, 2005 12:00 AM
I realized long ago that the big companies the author wasted his time contacting for Linux support would be the last ones to jump on the Linux bandwagon. Having seen some of their "support" people in action I doubt they are even versed in Windows let alone Linux.
Lady buying blank cds: "Whats the difference between the blank cds that say "music" disks and the ones that say "data" disks?
Genius support tech from some big box store: "Well, the ones that say music are specially designed for creating music disks and the ones that say data are only good for copying your data files to."
Lady buying blank cds: Ohhhhhhh, thank you, I will spend more for the music disks since I am going to make copys of my music cds."
I have a small computer sales and support business. I support mostly Windows users and and a growing number of Linux users. I also have my own Linux based mail server. Putting 2 and 2 together it seemed pretty obvious to me that my customers were the ones I could directly reach by using the resources I had at hand. I now ask every customer if they would like to be on my monthly newsletter list. In each months newsletter I include a mix of sales specials and Linux and Windows computer news and tips that I know they would never see in the mainstream news media they are normally exposed to. You can't wait for the big boys to do it. They never will on their own and will be the last in line to support Linux. You have to do it yourselves. BTW, it works.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 21, 2005 12:00 AMLady buying blank cds: "Whats the difference between the blank cds that say "music" disks and the ones that say "data" disks?
Genius support tech from some big box store: "Well, the ones that say music are specially designed for creating music disks and the ones that say data are only good for copying your data files to."
Lady buying blank cds: Ohhhhhhh, thank you, I will spend more for the music disks since I am going to make copys of my music cds."
I have a small computer sales and support business. I support mostly Windows users and and a growing number of Linux users. I also have my own Linux based mail server. Putting 2 and 2 together it seemed pretty obvious to me that my customers were the ones I could directly reach by using the resources I had at hand. I now ask every customer if they would like to be on my monthly newsletter list. In each months newsletter I include a mix of sales specials and Linux and Windows computer news and tips that I know they would never see in the mainstream news media they are normally exposed to.
You can't wait for the big boys to do it. They never will on their own and will be the last in line to support Linux. You have to do it yourselves.
BTW, it works.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
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