On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:37:44 -0700, Darth Chaos wrote:
> On Apr 17, 8:14 pm, Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarna...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [snips]
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>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:45:27 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> > Office Depot to SellXandrosSoftware
>>
>> > ,----[ Quote ]
>> > | ...Office Depot, a leading global provider of office products and
>> > | services, will deliverXandros' line of business and consumer Linux
>> > | desktop operating systems to the market.
>>
>> Give it a week. Even if it sells a million copies, we'll have DFS or some
>> other twit harping on about the microscopic market share of Linux,
>> completely oblivious to the existence of other distros, free downloads,
>> allowed copying and the like.
>
>
> Plus, there's some idiot neocon on FreeRepublic named "Golden Eagle"
> who says that Linux is a "communist ploy to defeat capitalism".
One could actually make an argument that it would at least damage _one
small aspect_ of capitalism: the commercial software market. Even if LGX
took the entire world over (so to speak) that wouldn't eradicate
commercial software; it would simply make it not the norm. Big whoop.
Mind you, it would do one thing which would tend to benefit users; it
would ensure that if you are, in fact, being expected to pay for a
commercial app, that app is going to have to be so superior to the open
source versions as to be actually worth it, a point which is manifestly
not the norm right now.
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