Re: [SLUG] Linux on the desktop predictions

[Jamie Honan]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Danny Yee wrote:

> Jamie Honan wrote:
> > * the influence of Unix / Posix / Linux ideas will be very
> > pervasive, but largely unacknowledged. Just as the Internet
> > today, as portrayed by the mass media, has nothing to do with
> > a technical revolution (TCP/IP) and the self sacrifice of some
> > great people, we will only see stories about the business
> > opportunities offered by, say, Debian Linux.
>  
> The corollary of this is, of course, that Microsoft will go the way the
> OSI networking protocols went...  (Maybe in twenty years there will be
> about as many Windows machines out there as there networks running CLNP
> today :-).

Another monstrous head will pop up as soon as the last has been
slain.

Jamie



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