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Matthew Carpenter
mcarpenter
Wed Sep 26 12:53:02 PDT 2007
On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> But that is not very likely as the vendors that need to be on board for
> such a thing to happen just refuse to open their source up to the Lunux
> community.
>
> The last problem is $$. Linux is free and there is no way to afford the
> pinhead and his/her marketing method of development and deployment for
> the desktop environment.
funny, I was just musing to myself at how the headlines/attitudes have changed
(humor intended):
* Linucks what?
* Linux making inroads in the server world
* Linux faster than Windows (but who cares)
* Linux stealing server market share from Sun and some Windows
* Why the Linux Desktop Will Never Take Off
* Why the Linux Desktop Hasn't Taken Off
and then todays:
* Why the Linux Desktop Hasn't (yet?) Taken Off
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