Re: [OT] an Amicus Curae to the Honorable Thomas Penfield Jackson

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"Jim Driscoll" <kernel@rjimlad.org.uk> writes:

> familiar company. I would expect free software to fare rather well if the
> market starts considering products on their (technical) merit rather than
> their advertising budget.

"How can it be good if it does not cost money?"
"How can it be good if it comes from several vendors that possibly do
not co-operate?"

Not my opinions, but commonly heard. People are not really considering
their options, even if they have the chance to. People still use
sendmail. People still use bind8 and plain-old-DoS-vulnerable inetd. So
what?

People want to be deceived by advertising. Even desasters won't change
people's minds, they will only sigh in a fatalistic way "yet another
mail virus"...

-- 
Matthias Andree
                Where do you think you're going today?
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