Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

[Rick Tomaschuk]

What I really take offense to is Ballmer/Gates calling Linux communist
and unAmerican...like hijacking the entire economy (US and Canada) with
their crap software sold to an unsuspecting public as a completed work
is all American. I know many good Americans who simply not familiar with
the technology to make and informed decision. They are too busy working
to support their families and trust the legal system to look out for
them. Now that the poor suckers have bought into the lies they have to
feed the voracious machine large bundles of cash $$ to keep it going.
This crap is what our people are in Iraq fighting and dying for. To keep
scum like the above safe. Stretches my mind...
RickT

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 04:57 +0200, Peter wrote:
> > 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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