You can't fool them all the time

Venezuela Launches Sale of "Bolivarian" Computers


Mérida, June 12, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)— The Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez announced the launch of their "Bolivarian Computers" last week, consisting of four different models produced in Venezuela with Chinese technology. The new computers will run the open-source Linux operating system and will first be used inside the government "missions" and state companies and institutions but eventually are expected to be sold across Venezuela and Latin America.


You can only tell people so many times that yes , Windows is a magnet for virii and other malware , before they decide to stop buying windows computers.

You can only put a copy of norton on a computer , for free , once , and then have it lock the computer for not upgrading to a paid license , call norton and have your credit card ready thats 75$ US for this call , to uninstall their "free free free how can you say no to free !" software that you didn't even want in the first place.

You can only have people pay for a fire wall once, and then have their children bypass it and download malware anyways , and wreck the computer, before they decide a windows machine is too expensive for them.

People will only cart a machine to the computer tech once, take it home , and have their daughter instantly infect it again five minutes after it's been plugged in , before they decide to just let the thing die and not replace it.

You only get to flaunt the rules of standing western governments once (maybe twice) before they decide to find an alternative to your product.


You only get to charge double or triple what that old clunker is worth, once , for an operating system that won't even run on it , and you stopped selling older versions that do run on it , before they start looking around for alternative operating systems.

When you muscle people out of the market , and decide they're not allowed to buy your product except at ruinous prices because you've decided you want to sink their businesses... they will look for an alternative.

You can only load up a computer with crap ware and turn it into your personal aggressive , even down right hostile , salesman , and then sell it to them , once ... before they decide never ever to deal with you again.

Microsoft has spent decades positioning itself to dominate everything , and is now enjoying the payoff. But the payoff does not go on forever, it only goes on until people shift over to something else. It only goes on until they realize they can build something from scratch that does the job they need done for a heck of a lot cheaper than Microsoft is strangling you for.

And then microsoft goes belly up. Because it is no longer trusted. Because no matter what it does from now on , it has made it's bed and now it must lie in it.