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   From: ajbrehm@gmail.com   
      
   TheLetterK  wrote:   
      
   > Andrew J. Brehm wrote:   
   > > 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?   
   > I guarantee you that 90% of the population would be running GNU/Linux on   
   > their desktops if the OEMs were shipping Linux by default instead of   
   > Windows.   
      
   What's that guarantee worth?   
      
   I have been in computer stores that sold Windows and Linux computers.   
   People bought Windows computers.   
      
   > >   
   > > Do you know anybody who tries to buy a computer without Windows and   
   > > can't?   
   > They have to go out of their way to do it.   
      
   How difficult can it be to walk into a computer store or Walkmart even?   
      
   > >   
   > > 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?   
   > You've missed the point--Windows is the default, and people will buy a   
   > new system sooner than replace the default operating system   
      
   That was my poiny.   
      
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   Andrew J. Brehm   
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