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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 23:25:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.221959.19464@sfu.ca> jeffreyj@nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu writes:
- >In article <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
- >> I wrote:
- >> Now what?
-
- I think Linux will eventually get around to satisfying people of your
- ilk. That is, non-hacker end user just trying to balance the
- checkbook and write a letter.
-
- But first, there is a huge crowd of able bodied and capable unix
- literate users that Linux will appeal to, and they are the primary
- target. Why? Because they are actually capable of contributing to
- the improvement of the system. So you can almost think of this
- as a recruitment drive. When most major problems are solved,
- the "I don't really care how it works" crowd can be serviced.
- Until then, you may want to stick with DOS/WINDOWS, painful
- as it may be.
-
- Peter.
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