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Why Normal People Don't Use Linux

Jun 10, 2009, 13:02 (9 Talkback[s])
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"1. Inertia: it’s a lot of effort to change your ways and your system.

2. Ignorance: people just don’t know about Free Open Source Software.

3. Indifference: people just don’t care what flavour software they use, and why should they?

4. Innovation: there is no show-stopping, gob-smacking, utterly compelling reason to use Linux."

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