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From: Rod Speed
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 21:58

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N. Thornton <bigcat@meeow.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Derk Gwen <derkgwen@HotPOP.com> wrote

>> IMHO the more muckysoft moves away from what the buyer
>> wants, the more people will turn to linux and other OSes.

>> Not if you can change what buyers want.
>> Which is the purpose of advertising.

> But I dont think advertisers will fool all the people all the time.

You dont need to do that, just convince enough of the people enough of the time.

No one, least of all MS, gives a shit about few percent of the potential
customers choosing to use something else. That will always happen
anyway just because enough will refuse to use what everyone else uses.

> Awareness grows apace on this.

Bullshit.

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From: "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com>
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