🚀 go-pugleaf

It was the Tue, 09 Feb 1999 16:25:22 -0500...
..and klaatu <klaatu@clark.net> wrote:
> Tres cute! But aren't you hitting the law of diminishing returns yet? Seems to
> me that everyone with the intelligence to see the need for a free open-source
> operating system, complete with source code and compiler, has already got a
> Linux box, while everyone who doesn't see the need is working for or selling
> to the DC government and could not be pursuaded to give up their Windows3.1 or
> NT machines if you stuck a gun to their head and buried them in gold pieces.

Actually, Microsoft doesn't have a big lobby. They forgot to buy
enough politicians. Bill Gates' game of golf with Bill Clinton was an
utter failure - just for example. 

mawa
-- 
Some people seem to have a kind of key to life. They've got an easy
way to decode it, or either to strip it clean of everything that
doesn't go with their model of it. Other people have got to face it in
its entirety, or at least what looks like its entirety.        -- mawa
%        
Warkus' Law of Unix Software Evolution:
1. Common sense will eventually win out.
2. We didn't say it would happen soon.
                                                               -- mawa