Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

[Ivan Avery Frey]

Peter wrote:

> 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. 

Careful here. Your contempt for the "unwashed masses" is shared by 
elites of all stripes be they of the left or right.

> 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).
> 

The collapse of an ideology with little bloodshed points maybe to the 
success of the educational system?

I dunno just my 2 cents.

Ivan.
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