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

From: Matthias Andree (ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 10:09:28 EDT

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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

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