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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> The "Appliancising" of Free Software
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>> | Five years from now, we'll have "the end of the desktop," which has been
>> | predicted for years now. It won't really be dead, but phones, netbooks,
>> | and Zonbu-like appliances will take a good share of it.
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>> http://briancarper.net/2008/08/30/interview-with-a-new-linux-user/
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> I don't believe such a thing will happen - there is a lot that a desktop
> has to do that a lilliputer cannot do.
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> I think all that is really happening is the Micoshaft products and their
> monopoly has killed a lot of new products and innovations by bribes
> to vendors, lock ins, bribery of politicians and the like.
> Micoshaft is the classic baby killer gone mad killing everything
> so that it can survive.
> The markets no longer worked efficiently because monopoly customers
> are overcharged to pay vendors back handers while politicians stood
> back and did nothing drunk on tax payer money as usual.
> Linux has come along and started to break the mold.
> And its bringing newer and better products that monopoly dare
> not bring out because it harms their market distorted business models.
This may be starting to change. Ask Quebec's govt', which has just been sued
for blindly buying Microsoft. Their job is at greater risk now.
> People want new products and Linux is delivering them
> from appliances to software that is cheaper and more flexible
> and interoperable - Only Linux and free software can do all that.
> Just because that is all happening does not mean desktops are about
> to fold. The desktop will spread out into even more gadgets that
> interchange and present data with an even bigger total IT budget
> per family once Linux starts taking over.
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"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..." --Paul DeGroot, a Directions
On Microsoft analyst.
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