Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

[Peter]

> Not that this discussion is about Linux mostly, anymore. But I enjoy it.
>
> From which country is your younger experience, Peter? I am asking just out of 
> curiosity, though I know that most immigration to your present country is

I hail from Romania.

> I do not think that the educational system in East-European countries, 
> indoctrination there, was a "failure". The system simply last too short to 
> achieve its goals. It would need to continue for a few more generations. The

Maybe I did not make myself clear. I was saying, that the problem of 
electing politicians instead of technocrats into government, based on 
their empty promises, could be cured by an educated public. The 
education would have to tech such things as white lies, pork (spending), 
basic statistics and other unpleasant truths. The ex-communist education 
systems *did* teach such things (obviously about the west, which was 
bad, bad, bad <g> and shown as a negative example), but it did not 
connect this with the discrepancy between one's own car and clothes and 
those of the well-travelled comrades in their Gucci shoes and 
Mercedeses, nor with the fact that none of them had been elected by 
anybody we knew or trusted. In this, it has failed ;-). It is very 
unlikely that you will ever catch me saying something very good about 
the communist system, due to my personal experiences.

Peter
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