I think you should read Gerald Holmes' take on why Linux won't be on every
desktop. Very enlightening...
http://geraldholmes.freeyellow.com
On Friday 09 November 2001 10:49 pm, jeffrey l koehn wrote to me:
> Linux will win and Micro$oft will lose. So
> sit back and watch it happen.
>
> That's right, Linux will be on every desktop
> and server and you can damn me all to hell
> for saying so, but that is how it will be.
> The all American Dollar rules. What becomes
> a standard is determined by economics
> ( the cost of the product).
> There was a time when you could get Windows 3.1,
> for $30.00 and that is when Micro$oft
> became a standard, it was'nt because of
> superior technology.
> The genie (GPL, Linux, Open-Souce) was let out
> of the bottle long time ago and as time passes
> it will consume everything. If you ask me, it
> reached critical mass in 1998. The genie can not
> be put back into the bottle. And so the
> next business/technology model has
> already been determined.
>
> Why?
> Because:
> 1)Lower Cost ( The Linux Kernel doesn't cost anything)
> 2)Open-source Kernel
> 3)The "GPL, Linux, Open-Source Kernel"
> is the perfect technology foundation
> for Manufacturing and the masses
> because people, businesses, universities,
> governments contribute to it.
> 4) Linux can scale up or down
> 5) Linux is hardware agnostic
> 6) "Linux, Open-Source" can and
> will morph into future tecnologies
> that will benefit all.
>
> If your not using Linux and your
> still using MS windows, you better
> wake up and smell the coffee
> because the world has changed.
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