Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

[Peter]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Stewart Sinclair wrote:

>> Yes, but one would have to become a politician to pull that one off imho.
>> 
> Most politicians are lawyers.  Haven't you noticed?

They must have moved on to the next (lower) level then.

> When engineers and mechanics can approach politics without fear and without 
> personal ego needs there will be real changes.  Until then the whole show 
> will continue to go to hell in a bucket.

Imho that would require the unwashed masses (of voters) to replace 
belief (in false promises repeated over and over) with rationality. But 
that, in turn, would require the unwashed masses to stop being unwashed 
masses. And *that* would require an educational system that would 
educate them in this direction. I can see a problem here (and I can tell 
you that the communist education system used in former Eastern European 
countries, which tried to do this up to a point, was a failure out of 
this point of view).

Peter
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