Re: [PLUG] Dell and Linux

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

Paul:
>If M$, Apple, and Linux were all free and open source, I bet the
>desktop market would still go to M$ or Apple.  I still see technical
>people using Linux on servers, workstations, and embedded devices.  And
>the few of us running it as a desktop when we're allowed by family.

I don't think MS would quite have quite the same market share if its OS 
were open source.  Consider how MS finessed the world of word processors 
and spreadsheets by producing an OS that worked properly neither with 
WordPerfect or WordStar, nor with Lotus 123 and Quattro.  Open source 
would have allowed all of the above said programs to better integrate 
their programs and also get rid of lots of nagging errors because the 
programmers often had to write their software based on what MS made 
public or released under a non-disclosure agreement.

As for families, taking a few days to fix most windows desktop flaws 
usually makes a Linux desktop look quite usable after a while.  Besides 
until XP, it was quite difficult to keep any commonly available form of 
Windows running for long periods of time if more than one individual 
used the computer.
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