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Re: [News] Young People Favour Free Software

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Frugal computer users turn to free software
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Avery Bowron, a computer-savvy 19-year-old, readily acknowledges
>| that he learned something valuable about technology from senior
>| citizens: Good software can be obtained at no cost.
> `----
> 
> http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070316/BIZ04/703160382/1013
> http://tinyurl.com/2t35yg
> 
> I happen to know teenagers who chose Linux because they could not afford
> Microsoft's software. And these people are the future of computing. They are
> tomorrow's developers, developers, developers, developers.

Frankly, this is /precisely/ the reason why I first started using Linux,
all those years ago.

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