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To: shades who wrote (51984)	1/29/2006 5:42:05 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) of 110194

Getting OpenOffice for free is amazing, and Firefox and Thunderbird. I actually contribute financially. Plug that into your mass generalization. But for the rest -- it's a market matter. I bought the scanner, and it only comes with drivers for Windows. You are simply wrong when you say people wouldn't buy them -- they can't for the most part. There are packages you can piece together and try from "volunteers" but that hasn't been worth my time yet because I can do that with the Windows version I bought. Not with gold, but fiat currency <g> So plug that into your stereotype, too. I wanted to buy other products for Linux but they aren't available -- Quicken and Turbo Tax to name a couple. The market just isn't there yet. When critical mass arrives it will become a relevant market for those big players. And sure I could write drivers for Linux. But I have far more relevant things to do with my time at this stage of my life. I'm glad other don't <g> Plus anybody wanting to do home wi-fi under Linux could just buy a wi-fi bridge and plug their NIC into it and voila, driverless wi-fi for about $70. Not as convenient for the local cafe, though.

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