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[alan]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 April 2007, mindwave at cfl.rr.com wrote:
>> AND they have raised over $700 in one day!
>>
>> so with just 40 days left, lets see thats 734.11 x 39 =
>> 28630.29 thier goal is $350,000.00
>> Ok so which one of you guys is swooping in on day 40 with
>> a one time donation of $321369.71 ? Just want to know who
>> to direct MY next fundraiser to!
>
> Maybe the planners did not start this marketing campaign
> soon enough to accomplish their goal.
>
> Parachutes only work when they are open same thing with the
> human mind.

Put down the marketing books and back away slowly.

>
> The only way Linux will ever become a worthy adversary to MS
> on the desktop is when the Linux community as a whole has
> an open mind about doing things that apparently most Linux
> users think are stupid.
>
> The problem with the Linux community is that most use the
> software because it is free and they are too cheap to give
> a couple bucks to help advertise.
>
> 35,000 users x $10.00 = $350,000 this could be done in a
> day.

And how much is your take?

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