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Bob Young says Linux won't rule the desktop

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can't-say-he's-wrong dept.

Wee writes "I just came across this interesting Yahoo interview with Bob Young in which he says that Linux won't rule the desktop but will instead focus on replacing legacy Unix systems and enhancing Linux's embedded presence. He makes some pretty good points. The oddest quote: "So our opportunity is not to replace Microsoft on the PC. If you've got a perfectly good working PC, why you would go through the angst of replacing it?". Not sure where to start answering that one. My wife (a dedicated Win32 user) liked his car analogy. I need to get her to read 'In the Beginning was the Command Line'..."

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  1. Mod parent Up by Odinson · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Well said. You forgot one thing though.

    What stratigical moron declared war on the Windows desktop before the tanks were designed or built yet? Wasn't it ZDNet or somthing?

    "Come over here, I'll bite your ankles off!"

    Our troops are just massing now. Don't you see it ? That dot on the horizon?

    Duh

    Poor foolish Red Hat.

    Cringley said "first the geeks, we are here ----> then the businesses, then the world!"

    --
    Novel theory: Modern Man evolved from psychopath
  2. Re:Makes sense by Jason+Earl · · Score: 4, Redundant

    Tell that to Oracle. They are replacing their big Sparc boxes with commodity Intel-based servers running Linux.

    If Oracle can do it, you can bet that you can too. In fact, you can bet that if you don't use a combination of commodity Intel-based servers and commodity Free Software to lower your costs your competitor will, and his overhead will be that much lower than yours.

    The days where big-iron Unix users could afford to laugh at Linux are over.