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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (62887)	11/12/2001 12:14:09 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Now you're really stretching it. Must you always redirect the issue at hand, when you run out of arguments? The debate was "Free" OS vs Microsoft OS.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (62887)	11/12/2001 1:21:36 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Charles, your analogy is brilliant. If you compare the choice between buying the CD or downloading it for free, you isolate the issue of why Linux has been such a failure at being used by the general public. Neither are "free". The "cost"* of the napster cd is the time of download, but that is where it ends, you have no significant further expense to listen to the cd. Napster was a colossal hit, linux has not been. The fact that Linux is limited in its ability to be freely downloaded was very informative. Advertising can't be blamed for everything, eventually someone is going to look at what is being advertised. *No analysis is made regarding the difference in economic marginal utility of a rock and roll record versus an operating system, but if that analysis were made proper weight would have to be given in both directions, ie the cost of entertainment might be more significant when it is considered that there is no (or very little) economic benefit to the user.