Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 11/06/03

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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 23:43:00 -0600

    On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 20:55, David Millet wrote:
    > all I have to say is that I personally want linux to rule the desktop,
    > simply because I will stand to make alot of money when big companies
    > start picking it up. a lot of us will, in fact.
    >
    > i'm extremely confident that it will rule the desktop market, because of
    > the speed at which the desktops have improved, which i have been lucky
    > to observe during the past year i've been doing the linux thing. i've
    > seen major improvements, unlike how windows upgrades their operating
    > systems these days. i use winXP at work and haven't seen yet too much
    > of an improvement from win2000. i agree with that guy from red hat.
    > give kde, gnome, etc a few more years to mature and it will be
    > night-night time for the M$ monopoly.

    Not until Broderbund releases a Calendar Creator that works with
    Linux. Ditto for Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, etc, etc, ad nauseum. 

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