Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: William Poaster Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why can't Linux "advocates" get their families to use open source slopware Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:48:08 +0100 Organization: Dumb Willy Boaster @ Llareggub Lines: 26 Message-ID: <8u8kc8-dcd.ln1@linuxnetwork.alpha.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net XRsJjbAO73yaD2JgVirJmQ9InJzZfbIf2Tbaog5VIHKuWh1Oah X-Orig-Path: linuxnetwork.alpha.org!news Cancel-Lock: sha1:/PQK0QWQ8vkY/gnKFMWX6X5J3lw= User-Agent: XPN/1.2.6 (Street Spirit ; Linux) X-Desktop: KDE 4.6.2 X-COLA-Trolls: The arseholes listed in http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/ are ignored. X-System: Fedora 15 64-bit Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.advocacy:32868 In reply to JEDIDIAH who posted: > On 2011-06-13, DFS wrote: >> The most rabid "advocates" in the world can't even get the people >> closest to them to use the hobbyware, so why the fsck should anyone >> listen to them? > > [deletia] > > I have been quite clear about this in the past: Apple vendor lock. > > Although Android seems set to undo that bit. > > Still it's terribly ironic that Apple works so hard to make the world > safe for Microsoft products and helps to push sales of newer versions of > monopolyware. Well I don't know about any other Linux advocates families, but my other half uses Linux, in fact she uses Mandriva. She also has a Motorola Android phone. :-) -- A)bort, R)etry, I)nfluence with large hammer. "Microsoft has vast resources, literally billions of dollars in cash, or liquid assets reserves. Microsoft is an incredibly successful empire built on the premise of market dominance with low-quality goods." -- Former White House adviser Richard A. Clarke --