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Why Free Software is a Hard Sell
jeffro writes "Dont know if this has been submitted yet, but the Independent news UK has a rather newbiesh article on the ups and down of Linux software as a free alternative to Windows.
"Perhaps Linux shouldn't be regarded as an operating system at all, but more as a sophisticated multi-player game with a large number of enthusiastic players. You can lose yourself in Linux for hours, tweaking here, updating there. It's great fun if you like that sort of thing. But if you need to produce a document, spreadsheet or presentation, you're still likely to be able to do it faster and better by sticking with the Microsoft devil you know.""
In the UK, over 90% of cars are manual.
As a sidenote: modern computer controller 4-speed automatics are very comparable to their standard counterparts as far as efficiency/power. Furthermore continuously variable transmissions, which you can get in the 2WD A4, for instance, are more efficient than a standard.
Point taken.
Maybe it wasn't the best example, but North American history is indeed rife with adoption winners that are not technically the best-of-breed, but rather the most accessible. I don't think its a very refutable point, but I'm willing to entertain rebukes.
"Old man yells at systemd"
As soon as we package it and send it over there, you mean.
And on, and on...
Don't forget, America invented Rock and Roll, Soul, Funk, Garage, House, Hip Hop and R&B. The British only refine it while we've gone on to something else.
If you fall off a building, go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will be like hey, free dummy