____/ Mark Kent on Friday 25 January 2008 22:56 : \____
> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> * amicus_curious peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>
>>>> What can be said of something that is given away and still can't put a
>>>> dent in it's competitor's product which is way over priced?
>>>
>>> You will never know until you try. Theodore Levitt, the Harvard marketing
>>> professor of some fame, had a story that discussed products selling
>>> themselves. "What is a great product that almost everyone might want?" he
>>> would ask. Before anyone could answer, he would say "Sex!" "Now consider
>>> how much money is being spent to promote it anyway. Fancy cars, clothing,
>>> dental hygene, perfumes, and so on." If it is that hard to promote
>>> something like sex, what chance would an unwashed Linux advocate have to
>>> succeed by scorning his potential clients and waving a disk around spouting
>>> gibberish?"
>>
>> You have just inadvertantly summed up the rationale for GNU/Linux
>> support services.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> I'm still amazed at his obsession with being dirty, though. Does he not
> shower? Was he ridiculed at school for being smelly? It's a wierd
> obsession he has.
Ask chrisv about it. He refers to it as 'rat'.
--
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