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On Wed, 13 Sep 1995 xenon@deltanet.com wrote:

> Bah. Who needs MS products on a Linux box? Doesn't that defeat the
> purpose? I can see it now..."Get Word version 9.8 for Linux and
> receive GNU bundled with it." No thanks. Linux users *write* apps. 
[...]

And this is precisely why it will never be a mainstream, generally 
accepted OS...MOST computer users do not program.  They buy their box to 
run already created programs.  A businessperson has no time, nor any 
desire to fight code to produce a simple business related app.  A 
scientist needs to spend time doing science, NOT at the computer writing 
and debugging code for a potential sci-app.  A Joe Blo wants to run a 
word processor or play a game, NOT spend a year or more creating one from 
scratch. 

Good for the people who like to write software apps for the people who 
actually need them...but they are a small group.  The rest of the 
computer users need to USE...and this eliminates Linux or Unix from 
general use.  

patrick@corona.med.utah.edu