Re: GPL traitor !

[Doctor Smith]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:56:50 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:36:13 -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote:
> 
>>     The beauty of a gratis LiveCD is that you can "try before you buy"
>> with no muss, no fuss and no risk.
> 
> Except that a LiveCD will boot slowly, run slowly, and generally give a bad
> impression of the speed of Linux to anyone who doesn't understand the
> issues with a LiveCD.
> 
> It's really a dual-edged sword.

Yea.
I've had people tell me that, unbelievable but true.
I still think the LiveCD is one of the better Linux concepts.
The biggest problem though is that people don't trust the fact that it
won't screw with their local hard drive data.
It seems to be a concept they can't seem to grasp.