Re: [newbie] Registered users

[Michael Carr]

> If Linux is a free operating system under the GNU/GPL License, etc., etc.,
why do people insist in showing the rest that they are registered users?

For the reason that, as a freely redistributable operating system, the scale
of its use can't be determined by sales figures alone; the less Linux is
perceived as the specialist preoccupation of a handful of hackers, the more
hardware manufacturers, for example, will be inclined to extend their
official support.

Michael