Desktop Relevance

[Dan Ritter]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:14:10AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> I recall back in the 90s when Unix vendors decided to halt workstation 
> production.  Basically, my point is that while desktop systems don't 
> make money, it tends to be the desktop systems that people tend to learn 
> with. I would also agree that in the corporate world, even if a data 
> center is all RHEL (or SLES), the desktops are primarily Windows. 
> Actually, this is a good thing for IT people because they spend a lot of 
> time fixing broken Windows systems :-)

It's odd that he would say this just at the time when it becomes
clear that ordinary people can enjoy using Linux desktops...

-dsr-

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