Subj : Re: Which Linux for a beginning desktop?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Trent Buck
Date : Mon Feb 28 2005 11:39 am

Spake chris:
> > Microsoft bashing will not earn you marks. 
> 
> Perhaps not, but it's fun.  I'm really looking forward to the day when
> computer operating systems work properly, and there isn't a spurious
> monopoly any more.

There isn't a monopoly any more.  We've won.  Microsoft's business model
can't cope with Open Source; it's only a matter of time until they run
out of capital.  The database vendors are on our side.  Commodity
hardware manufacturers aren't, but Apple has enough weight to get a
subset of hardware supported.  Big business still sees Linux as a
bargaining chip when negotiating deals with Microsoft et al, but
progressive thinkers in e.g. Extramadura and Brazil have rolled out
*massive* deployments -- kids are GROWING UP with Linux instead of
Windows now.  We've won.

If this was comp.os.windows.sucks, then maybe your ad hominem would be
on-topic.  This is comp.os.linux, however, and I for one would prefer to
be discussing the benefits (and detrements) of Linux than an operating
system that has come and gone.

-- 
Trent Buck, Student Errant
Physics is what results when you pollute mathematics with reality.

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