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IBM and Its Thoughts on Desktop Linux
Knuckles writes: "According to c|net, IBM will give desktop Linux a thumbs up at the Desktop Linux Conference in Boston on Monday. Sam Docknevich of IBM's Global Services group will give a speech titled, "The Time is Now for Linux on the Desktop." It seems that IBM will not go for the multi-purpose desktop, though, but for machines performing narrowly defined functions (kiosks etc.). However, basic office workstation seem to be included in this definition, according to C|Net" And in a classic case of the right-hand not knowing what the left-hand is doing, Realistic_Dragon adds: "IBM was leading the words of Red Hat's CEO in comments to the UK government last year saying that '...open source was not ready for the desktop'.
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IBM and Its thoughts, not IBM and It's = it is thoughts. If you can't tell the difference, this might help.
Dammit, it's hell knowing how to write. I know exactly what the poster meant, but my vision focuses intently on the errant apostrophe, unable to concentrate on anything else, trying to banish it with the force of pure frustration.
Feel free to mod into oblivion, it will only aid me in damning the lot of you as ignorant philistines. Thank you and goodnight.
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wrt Win-kiosks, especially that last.
(I should probably attribute the quote, just to make sure it remains fair-use. Blade Runner, as if anyone needed telling that.)
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings! -Feynman, maybe
This is so sad. I've been waiting for a Linux conference to come to Boston for a while now. The Cnet article says this conference is being held in Boston, but in reality it's 40 minutes North. I don't have a car, but I would be willing to work something out. It's being held by the Desktop Linux Consortium, who claim to be a nonprofit outfit.
:)
:P
Why, then, does it cost $250 to register? Is it just to keep students like me from coming? Having a boring job that has nothing to do with OSS, I can't get my company to pay for it, and I certainly don't have that kind of money to toss into the wallets of the people that should be hiring me
oh well, I guess I'll just keep my eyes out for the next one...