Linux may lose its chance of competing with Microsoft after the 64bit revolution gets underway

[paul sutton]

I agree with this,  why are we obsessed with the desktop, Linux is 
leading in other fields, e.g on web servers,also whenI watch science 
programs in general when they are chatting to a scientest (or whoever) 
in somecases the desktop software being used is not Windows and looks 
more like nextstep (or perhaps gnustep).  Linux is strong on the server 
market,  which means users have something rock solid at least in the 
back office.  We seem to think of Linux on the desktop as perhaps in an 
office of say accountants, lawyers,  and other industries, whereas I 
think in certain fields GNU is on the desktop, in which case we should 
be helping them to make things better and perhaps then it will migrate 
over to less technical industries.


paul

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>
> To me the key is to keep working towards acceptance of open source 
> software and open standards.  IMHO a collapse of OSS would have very 
> grave implications for societal freedoms in the future.  We are so 
> dependent on data held within computer systems that to allow control 
> to fall to a select few is very dangerous.
>
> You see I am far more concerned with how the law interprets freedoms 
> and knowledge and how that relates to OSS than I am to any specific 
> technologies like the GUI circa 2006.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>

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