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.
--
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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