From:	"Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM>
Subject:	Re: "Free" Software (was: Euro question)
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 10:34:09 -0700

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> From: Lehlan Decker <decker@****.FSU.EDU>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: "Free" Software (was: Euro question)
> Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 11:21 AM
>
> Guys the problem also is that a free product, doesn't have the
> same investments behind it, because there's little to no money
> being made. I love linux (and no my x-windows, doesn't look like Win95:))
> but I still have to have a copy of Win95 for games, and MS Office.
> Linux has come a long way (although their NFS support still needs some
> work), but its not the same. I haven't seen anyone writing huge mass
> market games for it, etc. Free software is wonderful, and it provides
> a challenge to the megas, but it would most likely always be seen
> in the hands of the "intellectuals" who liked to fiddle with their
> OS, didn't mind things breaking, or writing it themselves. The masses
> want somebody to call when it breaks, and to be able to wonder
> down the store and by their programs. I don't see this changing even
> by 2050. This is all IMHO of course.
>

So in the end you have the deckers running their own OSs on their
computers, and the standard users running some mass-marketed crap?

Sounds about right.