[CS-FSLUG] Analysis: MS and Spyware Giant Claria

[Fred A. Miller]

On Saturday 02 July 2005 6:24 pm, Frank Bax wrote:
> At 10:03 PM 7/1/05, Ed Hurst wrote:
> >Regardless of the evil MS may do, it appears to me there's a vast
> >underlying apathy among users that keeps them ignorant of their options.
> >Not just "don't know" but unwilling to listen to even the simplest of
> >warnings. We probably all know someone who had had enough, and we helped
> >them switch to Open Source. I wonder: When will a much larger segment of
> >the computer using population "have enough"?
>
> It'll never happen.  Compare it to telemarketing - you know, that annoying
> "pop-up" on our telephone system.  If it weren't profitable, companies
> wouldn't do it.

Well, I understand that AT&T WILL be dumping MickySoft in favor of Linux and 
OpenOffice.....been doing a 75,000 workstation study for about a year. So, I 
wouldn't make that assumption. We all have our favortie distros., but you 
MUST give credit where credit is due, and applaud their efforts which WILL 
continue to take an ever bigger and bigger marketshare away from MickySoft, 
and that's SUSE. They HAVE made Linux finally useable and installable for 
most 'Bloze users. MUCH needs to be done, but my money is on them to get it 
done, to the benefit of everyone in the community.

Fred

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