Why Linux will win and Micro$oft will lose

[agabriel at home.tzo.org (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

I don't think MS really cares who wins the desktop anymore.  There apps
are moving towards .net and they see more money in that than in the
current desktop & apps markets combined.  They will certainly try to
squeeze a few more dollars out of it, but in the long run I see it as a
moot point.  

Not a flame, just my humble opinion.  
Anthony

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, jeffrey l koehn wrote:

> Linux will win and Micro$oft will lose. So
> sit back, have fun and watch it happen.
> 
> That's right, Linux will be on every desktop
> and server because the all American Dollar rules. 
> What becomes a standard is determined by economics
> ( the cost of the product).
> There was a time when you could get Windows 3.1,
> for $30.00 and that is when Micro$oft
> became a standard, it wasn't because of
> superior technology.
> The genie (GPL, Linux, Open-Souce) was let out
> of the bottle a long time ago and as time passes
> it will consume everything. If you ask me, it
> reached critical mass in 1998. The genie can not
> be put back into the bottle. And so the
> next business/technology model has
> already been determined.
> 
> Why?
> Because of The Big Picture:
> 1)Lower Cost ( The Linux Kernel doesn't cost anything)
> 2)Open-source Kernel
> 3)The "GPL, Linux, Open-Source Kernel"
> is the perfect technology model/foundation
> for Manufacturing and for the masses
> because people, businesses, universities,
> governments contribute to it.
> (Linux can never be owned by anybody
> or anything)
> 4) Linux can scale up or down
> 5) Linux is hardware agnostic
> 6) "Linux, Open-Source" can and
> ? ? ?will morph into future tecnologies
> ? ? ?that will benefit all.
> ?Can you think of some more reasons why Linux will win
> and micro$oft will lose?
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