Desktop Linux (fwd)

Randy Edwards redwards at golgotha.net
Mon Feb 23 10:02:30 EST 2004


> Do you really mean to imply that people who pay money for software are
> idiots?  [...]
> What about people with low-speed or non-existant network access --
> these people *can't* download huge software distributions.  Are these
> people {de facto} "idiots"?

    Umm, no -- to both questions.  As plainly stated, my example denoted 
acquaintances who had 'net access and didn't want to be bothered to d/l 
software.  Purchasing software off the shelf may be useful to some people, 
and the thrust of my message painted the need for Linux to be on store 
shelves if it's going to target the home market.

    And clearly, the reference to "idiots" I made had nothing to do with 
software at all -- I said the laziness in computer users to d/l software was 
the same mindset that allowed idiots to buy penile enlargement snake oil 
from spammers.

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  Regards, | "There can be no effective control of corporations while
  .        | their political activity remains.  To put an end to it will
  Randy    | be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done."
           | -- President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt




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