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On Sat, 6/21/2025 5:29 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:33:06 -0500, Hank Rogers wrote:
> 
>> Linux is wonderful ain't it?   I wish everyone could hear the gospel of
>> Linus.  Praise him, all ye faithful.
>>
>> Amen.
> 
> Open Source doesn’t have access to multi-million-dollar publicity budgets 
> like the proprietary companies do, to tell everyone how wonderful they 
> are. All we have is word of mouth, from actual users.
> 

IDK, is there advertising ?

There seem to be a lot of enthusiast reports about "the week I spent with Linux",
those sorts of articles.

If Microsoft has a theme today, I couldn't tell you what it is.
Would the adverts have a "smart paper clip" ? I can't recollect
an item like that, if there is a current day equivalent.

We have the Insider. Unless I happen to read a release note,
from one release to another when I install that, I can't tell
what changed.

The advertising must be very clever and subliminal.

I don't watch TV any more. Maybe that's why I'm missing
something. A lot of the advertising, is presented inside
the product, like seeing a notification for XBoxPass.
Whatever that is. I don't have an XBox, and I don't
need a Pass for something I don't got. My last console
was a Nintendo 2600 or so, which I gave to a relative.

   Paul