On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 15:34, Steven Buehler wrote:
> Just found this on our internal site today, reported by Bloomberg
> News, that AT&T Labs is testing Linux with the idea of potentially
> dumping Windows from the 70,000 personal computers used by its
> employees in the company.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, widespread Linux adoption
(e.g., consumers) will come through corporate adoption.
It'll first start with the Freedomware Desktop at work. Then home users
will be forced to run at least Freedomware apps at home so they can
exchange. And once that happens, that's one less set of Hostageware
incompatibility we have to deal with.
It's only a matter of time before the 90%+ marketshare is broken. We're
already seeing it drop below 85% on the browser (when sites check for
the _actual_ brower in use, not as "forged" to be compatible).
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