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On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 11:03 -0700, Troy James Sobotka wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">First can we start clipping QUOTES down to the minimum?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Fishing stinks.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Fri, 2006-26-05 at 02:40 -0500, Billy wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Choice is good business. Strangely, many include color in their choice</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> of whether to install or buy. If they knew they had a few choices, or</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> even one they wanted. They wouldn't install or buy something else.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Just ask GM and Ford. They've learned the hard way.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I agree with Pascal here I'm afraid. I like the direction, and it is </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">distinct. Anyone who learns _anything_ about a *nixlike environment</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">knows that you can customize it to your hearts content. And that </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">comes without installing 1000000s of after-market tools.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">99.9999999% of the desktop users who come to check it out will</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">NOT be looking for alternate themes. If they stay, they will.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">We need to be distinct. We need to be focused. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">To this end, we are.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">PS: Knowledge dictates that a computer is not akin to a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">car in any way. It is art, literature, science, music, language,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">society, and a host of other things. We need to quit addressing</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">a computer like some sort of novelty gadget.</FONT>
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Someone coming from Windows or mac hasn't learned anything of the nix env, so they don't know.<BR>
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Where did you get your percentage? It's way off!<BR>
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Now all of a sudden we're focused? That was fast!<BR>
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Your professed knowledge has nothing to do with what a coputer is to one person verses another. As someone that worked for the world's largest market research firm for 3 years, I thought it was a very good comparrison and one that goes without saying...but I said it anyway ;)
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