> Whether Linux on the desktop is crap or not is
> completely irrelevant.
> 
> It's a matter of logistics. Linux is a mess and as
> such is simply not supportable and maintainable,
> because it doesn't scale in terms of management; the
> overhead of maintaining the thing becomes too great
> very, very fast. Supporting Linux desktops will even
> be an order of magnitude harder.

Well, Novell does it, Red Hat does it, IBM does it - and 
they all do it well. Now Ubuntu is going to offer support for it.

> They'll be sorry they went with Linux pretty fast.
> But, it should prove a good lesson to them, once and
> for all.

I am not sure at all. Since big players such as IBM are backing
Linux ...
 
 
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