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Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?)
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 19:18:06 +0100
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Mike writes:

> Windows 3 was clearly good enough for most
> people, but they still stood in line at midnight
> to get Windows 95 - which was better.

Those for whom Windows 3 was good enough were not standing in line.  They never
bought Windows 95 at all.

The reason you saw long lines is that there were many people for whom Windows 3
was _not_ good enough.


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