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Walter Bright wrote:
> Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> It looks to me that Walter's points aren't about convincing people to 
>> use it, but to show that you are using it, that there are customers.
> 
> That's right. It's called "social proof". 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Proof
> 
> Apple, for example, uses social proof as the central theme in its 
> marketing campaigns.
> 
> Back in the 1970's, Dr. Pepper hilariously used social proof in their 
> oxymoronic campaign "join the non-conformists!"

Social proof eh? hmm interesting. That's why I decided to learn vim, not 
because I felt or thought I needed to, but because it *seemed* that 
/real/ programmers use vim. You know what I mean?