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From the install docs for etherpad-lite on Github, step one:

As root:

Okay, two words and we've just lost 98% of the computer users in the world.

Install all dependencies. We need the sqlite develob libraries, gzip, git, curl, wget, libssl develop libraries and python:

... and now we've lost most of the remaining 2%.

"SUPER easy" for you, "SUPER easy" for me, but the other 99.98% of the potential customers would also love to use the product.



Seems to happen to a lot of products that are 'simple'. It happened to Dropbox ("Why would I use this when I can do these other twelve steps to do nowhere near the same thing") and the Ipod ("Why would I need this when I have a CD Burner and a Discman" (srsly)). I think it's safe to ignore claims like it :)




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