On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 09:22:58 +1000 Charlie disseminated the following: > > "So, let's all just stick with Windows and *CONTINUE* to pay for what would > > otherwise be free with Linux" > > That is the dumbest concept I have ever heard. Can't believe a human being > > actually thinks that way. I would much rather switch to something, knowing > > I lost money, if it would keep me from losing *more* money, than stay where > > I am and, knowingly, *continue* to throw lose away. > > Unfortunately most human beings rather the devil they know than the devil they > > don't, sad but true. To get anything to work, it must run parallel to human > nature in the main. Human nature takes eons to alter. Some of these > instinctive acts are still relevant, others are not. Your eyelid closing > before an object hits the eyeball. Very beneficial. Walking a path that > others have walked upon, means you don't fall into the quicksand and get > swallowed up. The known path is littered with the graves of pioneers. If all > were pioneers, then there would be no one to bury them. > > Using windows because you know it and not Linux, because you don't. Not wise > at all. But a natural inclination.
I don't believe you can pin it on 'human nature', dude. People, like all life, go for the bigger and better deal. If you find a spot that's comfy, you'll stick around, sure. But if you see a bunch of people having a grand ol' time a ways off, and their cave isn't crashing in on their heads unpredictably as yours has recently, you gonna move. We've been lulled into a restless sleep by the marketing and persuasion industry, one that spends literally billions of dollars to do so. A complacent and obsequious market is a predictable one, and that's what they want. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong. -- Linus Torvalds
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