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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 23:21:43 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 11:52:55 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Linux is good all by itself. Doesn't need advocacy.

That’s a naïve attitude, let’s face it.

The proprietary companies can afford multi-million-dollar advertising 
campaigns to tell everyone how wonderful they are. No Open Source project 
can compete with that.

All we have is word of mouth, from actual customers using the product in 
real-world applications. You’d think that would count for more, but it 
doesn’t.