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Re: 7 Reasons Why Linux Won't Succeed On The Desktop

____/ [H]omer on Friday 21 September 2007 03:45 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Gregory Shearman spake thusly:
>> Kier wrote:
>> 
>>> To the general public, there are only a handful of distros - Ubuntu
>>> being the most likely, with SUSE, Mandriva and possibly Fedora/Red
>>> Hat being possible contenders. For practical purposes, the
>>> remainder can more or less be discounted.
>> 
>> Shame on you!!!
> 
> Yeah, it's nice to see Kier cheering on the thousands of volunteers that
> put so much effort into hundreds of distros like Sabayon, SLAX, DSL,
> ELive, etc. Maybe he should try promoting them, rather than burying
> them. That is what "advocacy" is supposed to be about, right?
> 
> Unless he's decided to jump on the brain-dead "choice is bad" bandwagon.

Not sure what the hostility is about, but Kier has advocated many lesser-known
distros and he should be praised -- not ridiculed -- for it.

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