Re: [school-discuss] Re: [IIEP] When FOSS isn't F....

[Jacqueline McNally <j-conversations@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Dean wrote:
> that is a lot of money, and it shows how desperate the linspire people are.

Not at all. Open source software projects are mostly virtual 
communities, so making a boxed retail product gets OSS in front of 
another group of potential users.

Michael Roberstson posted to our events@marketing list, see: 
http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=events&msgNo=292

OOoRegiCon North America is getting the Linux Desktop Summit underway on 
the 9 Feb in San Diego, see: 
http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/regicon/ Meet up with OOo 
volunteers and let them show you what is coming up in OpenOffice.org 2.0 
at the OpenOffice.org booth.

All the best
Jacqueline McNally
Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project