Moore's Law Is Microsoft's Latest Enemy

Glyn Moody writes "Until now, the received wisdom has been that GNU/Linux will never take off with general users because it's too complicated. One of the achievements of the popular new Asus Eee PC is that it has come up with a tab-based front end that hides the complexity. But maybe its real significance is that it has pushed down the price to the point where the extra cost of using Microsoft Windows over free software is so significant that ordinary users notice. As Moore's Law drives flash memory prices even lower, can ultraportables running Microsoft Windows compete?"

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Re:Pertains to density at a given price

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I don't think I'd be using Wikipedia as a source... It's not that reliable, you know? Others have pointed out the fallacy of your ad hominem argument. But I'm not quoting a random Wikipedia editor; I'm quoting Gordon Moore. Google provides a list of other web pages apart from Wikipedia containing the same quotation. Which quotation repository that you consider more reliable than Wikipedia or Wikiquote would you recommend that I use?

Here's a choice quote from the page you gave: "Steven Moore was a well known ultra-Zionist that was known to make romantic passes at goats." If your concern is that somebody could edit the Wikipedia article to insert such a statement, you might prefer a permanent link to the revision that I used.