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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: Licensing (Was: [kde-promo] What's the community up to?)
From:       Aaron Seigo <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-12-09 5:01:31
Message-ID: 200412082201.35073.aseigo () kde ! org
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On December 8, 2004 21:18, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Thursday 09 December 2004 02:51, Aaron Seigo wrote:
> > the vast majority of users choose which OS to run because of the
> > applications that run on it.
>
> That's wrong. 98% of users don't choose anything. They just use the
> Windows which comes with their computer.

... which is chosen by the people who make those computers for the same 
reasons I outlined. there is no mandate today to ship with Windows. WalMart's 
selling Linux desktops, even. and yet you are right that 98% of computer come 
with Windows preinstalled. this is in response to market demand, and in 
response to the application availability. everything i said stands.

> > full stop.
>
> (I'm too tired to reply to the rest of the mail. It's too long for
> me ;-)

yes, let's just destroy KDE and all other Open Software software instead. as 
winter sets in in the Northern Hemisphere, i can't help but harken back on 
history and think that Napolean would be proud.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
Society is Geometric

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