[Marketing] Little Brother the Book

[Sean DALY]

I'll read that, thanks Caroline!

It's hard for me to make time to read, for the past three weeks I've
been alternating between a pair of Python books in English I picked up
in the UK and David Starkey's outstanding new biography of the young
Henry VIII... prior to that was two books on the Wars of the Roses,
more contemporary than the series on the Knights Templar,
Hospitallers, and Cathars I've been on since my visits to Rhodes and
Carcassonne.

Re Linux image, impact on Sugar, etc. Actually I don't worry very much
about how GNU/Linux is perceived, the bigger problem is its
fragmentation... many people discover a distribution and think it is
"Linux" when in fact they have seen only one interpretation. For
example the Asus Xandros distribution on my EeePC was easy to use, but
the repositories were never updated and "simple mode" was
frustratingly locked-down; that experience is very different from the
Linpus on my Acer netbook, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. Microsoft has
historically exploited this fragmentation, but at the end of the year
they will have three OSes in production... they may have their own
fragmentation issues

Sean


On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> :) I figured I was behind the curve, (I am after all well over 25) but I
> wanted to make sure no one else on this list is even further behind then I
> am!
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at isforinsects.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Luke packaged the book as a .xol bundle about 10 months ago:
>>
>> http://craphound.com/littlebrother/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_Brother.xol
>>
>> --Seth
>>
>> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Caroline Meeks
>> <caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
>>>
>>> If you haven't read it yet please do, especially Sean. The hero is a high
>>> school hacker and the them is freedom.  Its a good book and a compelling
>>> read.
>>>
>>> It  will probably win the Hugo this year and will be well read by geeky
>>> young adults and the people who read like them, which is certainly our
>>> developer, blogger and tech reporter populations!
>>>
>>> It features a dystopian view of computers in schools and computer
>>> surveillance but on of the heros' effective tools is a version of Linux.
>>> I'll let Sean tell us if its good or bad for Sugar's image. :)
>>>
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