I don't know if you can remember the Tandy 1000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000) but it was about 80% compatible with the IBM-PC and was considered PC Compatible. There were a lot of early adopters with the nerd crowd, and yet...
If the whole compatibility issue isn't addressed, Linux will continue to be slow to make it into the enterprise mainstream as a desktop OS. If the enterprise doesn't accept it, desktop application development can't get the funding it needs to grow and the longer we will have to wait.
How many times have I read others saying "If it would play my games, I'd dump M$ like (insert pithy saying here)."
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I don't know if you can remember the Tandy 1000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000) but it was about 80% compatible with the IBM-PC and was considered PC Compatible. There were a lot of early adopters with the nerd crowd, and yet... If the whole compatibility issue isn't addressed, Linux will continue to be slow to make it into the enterprise mainstream as a desktop OS. If the enterprise doesn't accept it, desktop application development can't get the funding it needs to grow and the longer we will have to wait. How many times have I read others saying "If it would play my games, I'd dump M$ like (insert pithy saying here)."