Subj : Re: Which Linux for a beginning desktop?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Mxsmanic
Date : Mon Feb 28 2005 09:59 pm

Trent Buck writes:

> 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.

Right now, only 0.1 % of visitors to my site are running Linux.  I
wouldn't exactly call it a stampede.

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