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Spot on!
My 2 cents worth- the greatest impediments to broad acceptance of Linux are
*)a lack of readable instruction material,
*)problematic configuration issues, especially in relation to networking and graphic cards,
*)poor customer service from the "paid for support" distributors (notably Mandrake in my experience),
*) and a (generally) in-hospitable user group network that will not tolerate our cannot communicate with those just beginning to put their toes into the Linux waters (present company excepted, of course :-) )
But there's hope:
Longtime Microsoft foe Novell signs an agreement to acquire SuSE Linux for $210 million in cash, while IBM will make a $50 million investment in Novell. Tue Nov 04 08:14:00 PST 2003
http://ct.com.com/click?q=f6-QkfIQMwckz6~PAtX69bwFsTpfx~v
I think the influence of these two giants will bring positive change, especially to the Linux Desktop, although I'd expect the cost of distros to rise significantly.
On the last point, I don't mind paying. I have always bought the MDK Powerpaks since version 8.x - what I hate is that I pay for upadtes that generally ruin my previous install (I coulda done that for free) and then the paid for support doesn't respond to my "incidents".
Sorry, I'm off again...
Byeee.....
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