[Ubuntu-SG] Ubuntu Users in Singapore

[Muhammad Heidir]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 01:19 +0800, John Thng wrote:

Mozilla Firefox is paving the way, but I noticed that during the Get
Firefox campaign when version 3.0 was released, I noticed that downloads
from Singapore was about 500 000. I could be wrong. I was hoping the
count could be higher.

There are blogs that talk about Linux and Open Source Software. But I
don't think a regular teenage or parent is interested about computing
issues, even reading about it online, unless it really affects them such
as File-Sharing prosecutions, or free wireless Internet.

I hope we could come up with a brochure that is friendly enough to be
used as an introduction and promotion of FOSS.

Talking about piracy, I'm sure if the masses know that FOSS is almost
free from legal problems, distributable, shareable and free, and much
better than piracy, slowly they might adopt.

In summary, we can make change 1 step at a time. No need to rush and
force people to abandon Windows entirely. Make them know, that
OpenOffice is an alternative and ODF is a standard format. Firefox is a
better browser.

One small step is a giant leap towards FOSS.

Best regards,
supervivid

>         On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 17:11 +0800, John Thng wrote: 
>         
>         
>         
>         > We all want to see more ubuntu usage. So far I don't think
>         > much know how to promote even if the laptop do come with
>         > ubuntu. If you do have suggestion, let's hear about it.
>         > 
>         > Vista is used widely in sales, because of the branded
>         > companies.
>         > 
>         > And for your question below,
>         > >> Is there any way for the buyer to be able to choose the
>         > operating system they want other than Windows?
>         > 
>         > Because not much people thought of other operating system
>         > than windows here. I can say, a lot of the people here learn
>         > windows from young to work and not other os ... And further
>         > more they depend a lot of windows software ...
>         > 
>         > As for your last question below,
>         > >> Are there anyone interested to see a change in the
>         > adoption of Open Source Software in Singapore?
>         > 
>         > The correct approach to help people adapt is to ask a lot to
>         > use those cross-platform open source apps on their windows
>         > first, not so extreme immediately switch to ubuntu to enjoy
>         > it.
>         > 
>         > As for mindef they have mentioned linux last time but I dun
>         > think it's fast to deploy. Have to wait at least 2010 or
>         > 2012 then I think there's more news to it.
>         > 
>         > Best Regards
>         > John
>         > 
>         
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> 
> Open Source Software, which I believe in Singapore, more and more
> people are supporting in certain area. One known popular Open Source
> App that here is Firefox.
> 
> The new ISO Office Open XML format is a forced standard. Even
> Microsoft don't include the ISO OOXML in its current Office suite. We
> might need to use the next version of Office to have ISO OOXML. So the
> current Office 2007 OOXML is out of the question for real usage, we
> need to educate people about this "trapped" format. We should
> encourage people to use ODF instead. And also fortunately the next
> Service Pack for Office 2007 will have ODF support.
> 
> Surely there will be compatibility issues, as Office 2007 is using the
> thousand flaws OOXML that is not the ISO version. I believe initially
> you thought that the Office 2007 is using the ISO OOXML but it is not,
> and might not with this version.
> 
> Besides single vendor, people need to know if their existing data
> works with the new solution. It is not as easy as abc.
> 
> There are open source companies here. But if you need sponsors, might
> need proposals. There are blogs around for Linux, for example
> http://planet.anomalistic.org/ , it's just they are not country-wide
> mass-known like those on tv.
> 
> Rather than doing stuff independantly, we need concrete plan to
> execute together, else here put a bit, there put a bit, and no one or
> seldom people see.
> 
> Oh yes, I know there are people here who use pirated products on
> computers especially home users. And too bad authorities didn't trace
> for that and catch people at home using pirated products. Normally
> people would compare their "pirated" software with Open Source
> Software that is Free.
> 
> And to talk about piracy, it comes to the philosophy part. As Open
> Source Philosophy hardly focus on this as much as Free Software
> Foundation. We can make use of the Freedom rules(which could actually
> classified proprietary stuff as selfish) to promote stuff like Free
> and Open Source Software(FOSS).
> 
> Best Regards 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
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