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Once again. Why do we want windows users?

  • Subject: Once again. Why do we want windows users?
  • From: keersarge <keeresarge@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:38:42 -0000
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  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Why is the entire pro-Linux news media so concerned about getting more
desktop users from that other bloatware to switch?  That is, what
advantage is there to the Linux community if they do?  Anybody who wants
Linux is running it now.  Future users who want to have a secure and
stable OS will find it.

Assume for a moment that Bloatware Inc goes out of business (fat chance,
but this is just a what-if?) and all the millions of users in the world
eventually switch.  Then we will have a world full of icon clickers who
surf as root, download neat screen savers that they are offered by email,
demand that everything be made simpler (about 4th grade level) and fill up
the 'Net' with zombied Linux machines.

So what advantages do these millions of technology deficient users bring
to the Linux community?  The only thing I can think of is driver support
from manufacturers who then would have to support it.  They have NOTHING
else to donate.

Linux is like living in a gated community.  The technical requirements
keep the great unwashed masses from walking across our lawn.  Why remove
the guards from the gatehouse?

keersarge

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