On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Bart Broeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do not agree, it's true. > > We can't even sell Ubuntu in africa. That's because the africans like to > be like the americans, they want what we've got. > But that doesn't mean that we don't want it because it's free. > > There are more things that makes people don't want Linux. > - Everybody has Windows, so it has to be good. Nah MacOSX is good although not everybody has it... -> IT'S ALL ABOUT MARKETING... you can't make money on something that is free... so you don't have any vultures (marketeers) selling air :-/ but alas most people that aren't a computer-expert are buying on impulse using the impulses those vultures make... (offcoze an ipod is easier to use than a creative zen .... and offcoze you don't need a 3G Iphone which is unlocked) > - People don't know they pay for Windows when they buy a pc a dell with linux costs as much as a dell with linux... you even get worse hardware for thesame price :( - They don't know anybody in there family or with there friends who uses > Linux. where do they go when they need help? > they even have (more) problems with windows ... but they hate it when I ask them to type "cmd" and give me some info :-) > > Linux needs marketshare to get a momentum where people realise it's a real > alternative. Linux needs to be inovative to give people the need to have > Linux, ... > a nice article is : http://www.security.nl/article/18124/1/Van_Windows_naar_Linux_en_weer_terug.html
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