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|    Re: Why Free Software Is Handicapped On     |
|    22 Dec 10 19:49:50    |
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: znu@fake.invalid   
      
   In article , Homer    
   wrote:   
      
   > Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:   
   > > amicus_curious pulled this Usenet face plant:   
   > >   
   > >> The crap that comes with a Linux distribution is hardly development   
   > >> grade.   
   >   
   > What, and the garbage that produced slopware like Vista is?   
   >   
   > > Bullshit.   
   >   
   > He must've been drinking the same "proprietary = better" Kool-Aid as   
   > ZnU.   
      
   That's gross misrepresentation. My position is merely that proprietary   
   development models demonstrably work better in _some_ markets.   
      
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