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From: "Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM>
Subject: Re: "Free" Software (was: Euro question)
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 09:18:19 -0700
> ease of use. And it was free. I'm sure there were attempts to
> develop something else, but those attempts quickly died at the hands
> of this free OS that everyone was using. Why buy something, when what
> you can get for free works? This model grew in popularity until even

I think this statement needs an analogy.

Compare Windows 95 to Linux with X-Windows. =)

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