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   From: ajbrehm@gmail.com   
      
   TheLetterK  wrote:   
      
   > > Common sense would dictate Linux would steamroll Microsoft, yet Linux   
   > > remains a virtual unknown amongst average Jane.   
   > > Why?   
   >   
   > No marketing, impossible to get OEM deals due to Microsoft's illegal   
   > business practices, etc.   
      
   Do you know anybody who would have used GNU/Linux if only his PC hadn't   
   come with Windows?   
      
   Do you know anybody who tries to buy a computer without Windows and   
   can't?   
      
   I've bought one computer with Windows in 1994. Since then I bought many   
   computers, two with Warp Connect, a few without OS, one Mac clone   
   (although I used it to run BeOS), and, since Mac OS X, several Macs.   
      
   I have _never_ had a problem buying a computer without Windows.   
      
   Have you?   
      
   --   
   Andrew J. Brehm   
   Marx Brothers Fan   
   PowerPC/Macintosh User   
   Supporter of Chicken Sandwiches   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)