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On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 08:57:07PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> If you're going to run around using GNU/Linux rather than just
> Linux, you could at least do Apple, who took the time to copyright
> their operating system's name, the courtesy of spelling it right,
> Christophe. :^>
I finally got it.
> The "switch" that you're seeing, and this is pure speculation, is
> a group that switched from MS Windows to GNU/Linux because MS
> Windows had become unbearably difficult to deal with, unbearably
> expensive, unbearably insulting to the intelligence of the user
> (yes, I really mean that), or otherwise ubearable. Those folks
> weren't using GNU/Linux because it supported their freedoms, they
> were using it because they needed a computer that worked more often
> than it didn't. For them, a shiny new Mac running Mac OS X works
> more often than ia32 hardware running a community-supported OS. As
I would like to believe that you are right but I noticed this switch at
the last gnome summit at Boston and this is not exactly a place where
you expect to see the kind of users you described. But again my feeling
if that this phenomena is over.
Christophe
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