Just remember this, you get what you deserve.

People including regulatory agencies can give just so many opportunities to
ensure a fair playground, but no one other than the product provider itself
can assure if there will be any difference.

At some point, those opportunities will be given to more competent ones, and
there will be no mercy for incompetent ones.

No one can force anyone to understand their customers, and fortunately, only
those who are willing to so will succeed.

So, I have done my part of being a good citizen :) and you have your right
to determine how to help Linux.

Good luck.

PS: I am speaking to you as you are a member of the Linux community.


"Alias" <iamaliasTAKETHIS@OUTgmail.com> wrote in message
news:h2kmdd$eel$1@news.eternal-september.org...[color=blue]
> xfile wrote:[color=green]
>>
>> I don't have statistics for you, but you (and your friends) might be even
>> more surprised by how many potential users lost.[/color]
>
> They were predisposed to not use Linux and if they're influenced by Frank
> and the Nymshifter, perhaps it's better if they abstain.
>[color=green]
>>
>> A side note though, not just applied to Linux but also to those
>> "supporters" of their beloved product/company.
>>
>> Same effects.
>>
>> But the question is, you are the one(s) at disadvantageous and have
>> lesser to loss. Take it or leave it but it's well intended.[/color]
>
> Getting the word out is a good thing. The fact that the MS fanboys can
> only resort to lies, insults, accusations of animal sex and no content
> doesn't hurt either ;-)
>
> Alias[color=green]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Alias" <iamaliasTAKETHIS@OUTgmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:h2kh0v$554$3@news.eternal-september.org...[color=darkred]
>>> xfile wrote:
>>>> Associate: People purchased a product/service because they wished to
>>>> associate with the image delivered by the spokesperson (and the
>>>> majority of other users).
>>>>
>>>> Disassociate: People refused to purchase a particular product/service
>>>> because they didn't want to be associated with the image delivered by
>>>> the spokesperson (and the majority of other users).
>>>>
>>>> Negative campaign: Almost always initiated by a person/company feeling
>>>> insecure about their position in the market, and almost always from a
>>>> 2nd-, or even lower, tier competitor targeting to the leader, and NOT
>>>> vice versa. Most well-trained decision makers can tell this very well.
>>>>
>>>> Foolish: Anyone insults a potential/existing customer just to show how
>>>> good this person is (or how stupid the customer is by purchasing a
>>>> different/wrong product) at the cost of the customer to disassociate
>>>> with the image represented by the person, and thus, may not continue to
>>>> use the product or even consider it.
>>>>
>>>> Many people purchased a product not for technical features but for the
>>>> above reason. So,
>>>>
>>>> You ask, why people don't want to use Linux? I ask, why you (as a
>>>> messenger, a.k.a. unofficial spokesperson) keep doing this even you
>>>> have been advised many times?
>>>
>>> I don't post for the regulars here who hate Linux. I post for the
>>> lurkers. You'd be surprised at how many emails I get from people who are
>>> interested in Ubuntu but would never post here due to the likes of Frank
>>> and the Nymshifter.
>>>
>>> Alias[/color]
>>[/color][/color]