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Unless you're an illegally-maintained monopoly that is spending a fortune defending your ill-gotten turf by bribing others to use your products instead of the better ones.
Then it makesallof the difference in the world unless it's impossible to find anyone using your products. The goal shouldthenbecome one of bribing the right people with low-cost products, and offering to pay them handsomely for using their services.
On Friday 04 November 2005 15:53, Thomas Wootten stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: I was already suspecting it...
Too bad that thereareothers that could have served the propaganda purpose with no added expense. But they weren't chosen.
In COLA troll fantasies. In ads on Linux Today. All over TV and radio commercials.
IDENbreastY THEFT is increasing exponentially. In fact, it's now considered the crime of the century. You can't turn on the news channel, you can't turn...
Seemingly, that's mostly where it resides these days. You can see it on a smattering of desktops, but it's not at all anywhere that matters. And it's succumbing to compebreastion on the only hill it's ever claimed to rule: the desktop.
They *could have* chosen it. But not if they wanted to do what they do with any real hope of success without having the unenviable position of having higher expenses and more time paid to babysitting everything.
I find the fact that the only producer-vendor of that quaint little alternative OS has chosen to get themselves behind a curtain of linux,TWICE-, to be more telling than anything anybody else could *ever* have to say in opposition.
-- Bill Gates: "As long as they China are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
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