Rex Ballard <rex.ballard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Precisely the point of my post. People have been predicting "The Year
> of Linux on the Desktop" for almost a decade, and I had even expected
> it since 1994. Yet, for almost 15 years, Microsoft has been able to
> maintain it's monopoly, even in the face of it's on incompetence and
> technical inferiority.
I don't know why people keep expecting a specific, identifiable
'Year of Linux'. Has any major technology migration every happened
in one year? Was there a specific Year of the Internet? A Year of
the Automobile? Why would we expect Linux to be any different? Given
the 3 to 5 year churn cycle in hardware, I don't see how any one year
could ever claim the name.
Now if the 'Year of Linux' is simply when it became a viable mainstream
desktop with irreversible growth... I think we wooshed past that
milestone last year at the latest. Of course its been a viable
desktop for some of us a lot longer.
Thad
--
Yeah, I drank the Open Source cool-aid... Unlike the other brand, it had
all the ingredients on the label.
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