Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 12, 2005 03:47 AM
Whether this is regarded as a troll or not, it is a good question (a good troll?). The first pitch I most commonly hear for open source software like GNU/Linux, Apache and Firefox is not "be a part of a sharing community of geeks" but rather "stop paying $$$ to companies like Microsoft for their buggy, inflexible, self-serving products." So the natural response is what OP posted.
Part of the answer is that you get out of something what you put into it.
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Re:I must have missed the point
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 12, 2005 03:47 AMPart of the answer is that you get out of something what you put into it.
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