Re: [Fsuk-manchester] the non-free neighbour asking for help dilemma

[Dave Crossland]

2008/5/5 Tim Dobson <address@hidden>:
>
> My brother's Windows XP computer has stopped booting. Apparently it won't
> boot from CD because of GRUB from previous (now removed) debian install.
> This is obviously highly unlikely. It's probably the BIOS.
>
> He wants me to take a look at it.

My sister's computer runs Windows and when she complains its slow or
full of viruses or whatever I tell her I'll help her to install
GNU/Linux, and if she asks for a program to do something with I tell
her the appropriate free software program for Windows.

In this case, I would get the machine so it can boot from CD, offer to
help installing GNU/Linux, and say if he chooses to install Windows
you can come back later and help him install free software
applications to get his data into free formats.

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Dave

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