Selling Linux to Windows Users

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Tue Dec 9 19:05:53 UTC 2008


Derek Broughton wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
> 
>> So, having a sword is better than having a gun?  I mean, the sword
>> came
>> before guns.  And I do believe there was MASS adoption of the sword.
> 
> Not really.  A far larger percentage of Americans own guns than would 
> have ever owned swords in any civilization, and that's probably true of 
> the world in general.  The sword was rarely even the military weapon of 
> choice.

That's my point.  It's not what came first.  It is what happens to be best.

(And I would debate the last line only because the Roman Legion was the 
most lethal pre-gunpowder force in the world.  The phalanx be damned. :)


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