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Re: [News] [Rival] The Nicholas Negroponte Smear Campaign and Microsoft/Intel AstroTurfers

____/ Mark Kent on Friday 25 January 2008 22:56 : \____

> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> * amicus_curious peremptorily fired off this memo:
>> 
>>>> What can be said of something that is given away and still can't put a
>>>> dent in it's competitor's product which is way over priced?
>>>
>>> You will never know until you try.  Theodore Levitt, the Harvard marketing
>>> professor of some fame, had a story that discussed products selling
>>> themselves.  "What is a great product that almost everyone might want?" he
>>> would ask.  Before anyone could answer, he would say "Sex!"  "Now consider
>>> how much money is being spent to promote it anyway.  Fancy cars, clothing,
>>> dental hygene, perfumes, and so on."  If it is that hard to promote
>>> something like sex, what chance would an unwashed Linux advocate have to
>>> succeed by scorning his potential clients and waving a disk around spouting
>>> gibberish?"
>> 
>> You have just inadvertantly summed up the rationale for GNU/Linux
>> support services.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
> 
> I'm still amazed at his obsession with being dirty, though.  Does he not
> shower?  Was he ridiculed at school for being smelly?  It's a wierd
> obsession he has.

Ask chrisv about it. He refers to it as 'rat'.

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