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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More

In their current series of ads the folks at Apple anthropomorphize the Mac and Windows operating systems. They represent Windows as conservative, traditional, and a bit uncertain. The Mac guy, on the other hand is fun-loving, hip, and confident. I can’t help but wonder what the Ubuntu Linux person would look [...]

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