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On Wed, 2006-03-05 at 18:58 +1200, Brendon wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">true i agree with wot you say as to speak, but what i am trying to get at</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">is that the more people that we bring over to linux the better. </FONT>
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You're placing the cart before the horse. It isn't "Linux will get better when we get more people" but rather "we will get more people when Linux gets better". Standards -- verifiable and enforced! -- are a key step to get commercial support of varying kinds (devices, online support from ISPs, etc.). As is design for usability rather than mere functionality. Lots of headway has been made on this -- but Linux still falls short of even Windows 95 in most usability regards.<BR>
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