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Re: [News] Linux Foundation Appoints Technical Advisory Board

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____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 11 December 2008 03:49 : \____

> 
> 
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Gary M. Stewart
> <gmstewart1953@xxxxxxxxx>
>  wrote
> on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:58:42 -0500
> <ghpojo$oh7$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:43:29 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Linux Foundation Reports on First End User Summit
>>
>> It's about time you Linux loons found someone stupid enough to use Linux.
>> Tell us, what's his/her name?
> 
> Well, make up your mind: is anyone using Linux or not?
> If one assumes 100M desktop PCs in the US and 0.8%
> of them are using Linux, one gets 800,000 at a minimum.
> Even if one goes with the relatively ancient 0.24% one
> still gets almost a quarter million.
> 
> Both are greater than 1 last I checked -- and I'm being
> rather conservative, as many users probably have more
> than one PC, are using virtual emulators such as VmWare,
> and other such bodgeries.  Also, both 0.8% and 0.24%
> have been questioned in the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie

If not repeated often enough, then it's not working. Gar^H^Hebbels and the
other Munchkins just need to recite it.

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