system-config-users 1.2.39 broken?

["國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)"]

I don't mean to be rude, but if your speaking in your personal capacity,
then all is fine, but if your speaking on behalf of the Linux community,
then I'd have to refute your claims.

Having numbers on our side helps plenty, really.  Microsoft is one good
example.

Craig White wrote:

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>The problems with your assumptions are:
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>Linux isn't interested in obtaining wholesale switchovers from Windows
>to Linux OS's. That's a common misconception that many Windows users
>make. Linux is it's own operating system without a commercial bent and
>thus no need to keep selling the same thing over and over again to the
>same people.
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>There are some distributions that are interested in selling their
>packaging against the Windows packaging and this list doesn't have
>anything to do with that - fedora is a free distribution.
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>For some things, GUI is a more efficient way of doing them. For other
>things, you can't beat the power of the command line. The problem of
>course is the knowledge of when and how and between Macintosh and
>Windows, there's a lot of computer users that have little interest,
>little reason to garner up the knowledge of things to get up and running
>and thus rely on setup wizards. Most of the Linux distributions aren't
>quite up to the level of Windows wizards. For other users, i.e. the ones
>that aren't afraid to learn some of the inner workings of a computer,
>once they get over their fear of something different, like Linux, a
>majority of them will appreciate the education they get, finally
>figuring out how things are supposed to work and the ability to fix
>things without 'reboot' or 'dump and reload' philosophy which is so
>prevalent with Windows usage because of the various inaccessible
>internals.
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>Craig
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