It's because our definition of Cybercafé here in the Philippines include games support. In most countries, an Internet Café is strictly connecting to the internet (Web browsing, chat and flash) and some basic functionalities like Office and Desktop Publishing... Games could be ditched out of the café, especially now that more people do more Facebook / Friendster than games.

Again, full migration may not be the applicable in this industry. I know of a cyber cafe in Iloilo City with 25% of its seats on Linux. These seats are used for research and Internet-use services. Other stations remain on Windows because of compatibility issues of some softwares. The owner still saves a lot from licenses.

A weak link here is support for games. The success of this venture is tied to how well wine supports popular games. To convince owners to migrate, we might need to provide tech support including making their games work. If I am not mistaken, there are internet cafes near UPLB and in Katipunan that use linux. Anyone familiar with these and with what happened to them?

There's a huge potential in spreading the word about FOSS if a cybercafé distributes Ubuntu CDs and / or portable apps. This way there'd be no need for customers to be paranoid about their Firefox or Pidgin data being hacked by someone in the café.

How do we encourage internet café owners and customers to shift to Open Source? This is what this group is all about.