XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: fishman1945dec@willcox.net   
      
   On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:53:55 -0500, ZnU wrote:   
      
      
   > Look, if you check my ~13 years of posting history (particularly the   
   > years when US v. Microsoft was going on), you'll see I'm quite aware of   
   > Microsoft's history of dirty tricks. But I really think you guys are   
   > seeing a conspiracy where none exists. Most consumers choose Windows   
   > because it's what they know and there are lots of apps for it. Given   
   > that netbooks are nothing but small, inexpensive laptops, and consumers   
   > were already mostly choosing Windows on laptops, why _wouldn't_ they   
   > mostly choose Windows on netbooks once netbooks became powerful enough   
   > to run it?   
      
   An executive from Acer I believe, slipped when he said the return   
   rate for Linux netbooks was very high. He quickly back tracked when   
   the FOSS Mafia descended upon him but the damage was already done.   
      
   People want what they know and that's Windows or Mac.   
   People don't want some obscure operating system like Linux.   
      
      
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