Comment 182 for bug 1

Here in Chile, the situation is basically the same as in all the other countries mentioned here. However, there's some light at the end of the tunnel. Some (select few) people in the government seem to know about Linux, and some good initiatives have been going on. For instance, we have an Educational Distro called EduLinux (www.elulinux.cl) which is financed by the government.

As someone said above, I think the source of the bug resides mainly in people's heads. People are too lazy to try something else that Windows (even though they know it's gonna make their computing lives better!).

And of course, the lack of marketing that Linux has ever had. All the FUD that Microsoft has succesfully spread across people and companies (specially them).

Anyway, I'm quite optimistic as to what can be done, considering all that Ubuntu has accomplished in so few years, making Linux more popular. However, even though Ubuntu has had a lot of marketing due to is enormous community, I believe that Linux won't become _really popular_ unless there's more collaborative "spread the word" campaigns among distros. It seems that Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE, whatever, are actually "competing" between them (which is not bad in some ways, but for communicational purposes it is).

Perhaps we should follow Firefox's example. What about something like SpreadingLinux? ;)

I mean..."Hackers of the World.. UNITE!"