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Re: [News] [Rival] The Nicholas Negroponte Smear Campaign and Microsoft/Intel AstroTurfers

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:56:27 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:

> 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.

No worse than Roy Schestowitz taking 5 or more showers a day.
That's about as weird.
And that can be proven by Roy's own words.
Your claims, Mark Kent are completely unproven.

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