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Linux on the Tipping Point

Posted by Zonk on from the my-grandma-uses-darwin dept.

Reader stormcoder wrote to mention an article on Enterprise Linux I.T. in which the author posits that even though Linux is built on a legend, the reality of Linux outstrips even the myth. From the article: "..the fact that Linux has traditionally been compared to Microsoft's Windows brand products and not the other Unix variants will most likely lead the general public to perceive all this as Linux sailing on to new horizons while Microsoft stalls out. This perceptual shift should totally reverse the previous mainstream view that Microsoft and Intel were somehow at the forefront of high technology computing -- thereby pushing Linux over the magic edge of a social tipping point."

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  1. The New Road to Profit by Chmarr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Claim $(OBJECT) is on the 'tipping point'
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

  2. Re:Where have I heard this before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "We will not attack Iran" seems to be the latest one. It's scary, because it's a great way to set the stage for a quick reversal when Iran slips up and does something stupid in response to US 'diplomacy'.

  3. Does this ring true to anyone else? by doc+modulo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I read a lot of internet articles. My subconcious mind does a lot of processing of that information. I can "feel" that this Linux tipping point is indeed coming, even if my concious logical mind still has doubts.

    Anyone else feel "it's coming".

    ("insert" girlfriend jokes here if they're good, surprise me :)

    --
    - -- Truth addict for life.
  4. dear gov. bush by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    please, would you mind disinvolving US from those murder for
    money/power/real estate schemes, which are causing harm to many of the
    creators' innocents, as well as being negatively upsetting to the entire
    world.

    also, please, do not give over our meager retirement allowances to those
    whoreabull felons on wall st. of deceit. there must be some other way to
    satiate their unending need for excess.

    talk about tipping points?

    thank you very much for your attention to these matters.