Re: Less competition outside of MS-Windows (was: Re: Desktop Linux-- Linux lost)

2002-07-23 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 08:44, Omer Zak wrote: As for the 'Linux Lost' hugwash, I see where all my Windows-centric *programers* friends ended up working (if at all) and I see where I and other Linux people work and I know that *we* have won and will continue to win. All the rest is just

Re: Less competition outside of MS-Windows (was: Re: Desktop Linux -- Linux lost)

2002-07-23 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for the Desktop sillinies, some historical perspective is due. Somewhere around 1980 a couple of smart people in Xerox PARC and Apple computers realised that in order to get the mundanes to use computers they must make sure computers provide a

Re: Less competition outside of MS-Windows (was: Re: Desktop Linux -- Linux lost)

2002-07-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:49:56AM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for the Desktop sillinies, some historical perspective is due. Somewhere around 1980 a couple of smart people in Xerox PARC and Apple computers realised that in order to get the

Less competition outside of MS-Windows (was: Re: Desktop Linux -- Linux lost)

2002-07-22 Thread Omer Zak
On 22 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: As for the 'Linux Lost' hugwash, I see where all my Windows-centric *programers* friends ended up working (if at all) and I see where I and other Linux people work and I know that *we* have won and will continue to win. All the rest is just intertia.