Erm. I think while you weren’t looking they changed what being a geek meant. Geeks aren’t the only ones with… iPods.

lol! yes, you’re right, of course. I was thinking non-geeks would be more interested in the “productivity” things like word processing, spreadsheets, and accounting than music, games and iPods. But, of course, that’s probably an overbroad generalization.

The ‘glossing over’ of Open Source projects such as Scribus and OpenOffice are probably done because they aren’t ‘Ubuntu’.

Except that those are part of the Ubuntu distribution.

The ‘glossing over’ of Open Source projects such as Scribus and OpenOffice are probably done because they aren’t ‘Ubuntu’. There’s a distinction between Linux as an operating system and the open source software which runs on it which - admittedly - most non-geeks wouldn’t know, and perhaps Grant should have mentioned that in the book a little more clearly for some readers who would think otherwise.