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Old 29-October-2007, 08:54 PM
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Default Exception that proves the rule...

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Originally Posted by Doodler View Post
Because products which are not advertised lose market share to products that are.
When was the last time you saw a commercial for Microsoft Windows? They usually only run them when a new version comes out. Now if commercials for Ubuntu or SuSE or Red Hat/Fedora Linux ever started running with regularity, you can bet the folks in Redmond would start cranking up the FUD-machine. (FUD=Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.)
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Originally Posted by Doodler View Post
Even if you're not going full bore on the in your face button, you've still got to keep this ADHD'd and information overloaded society reminded, or you lose out to companies that will put forth the effort.
Good point. Of course this presumes that the companies put forth real effort, not (for example) the lame excuses that passed for OS/2 advertisements from IBM.
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