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:Consulting Times: Desktop Linux: The Final Hurdles
Consulting Times: Desktop Linux: The Final Hurdles
Nov 11, 2004, 01 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4587 reads)

(Other stories by Tom Adelstein)

[ Thanks to Sam Hiser for this link. ]

"I remember the major turning point that took Linux from an OS that Microsoft used to call competition during their anti-trust case to a serious commercial operating system. At the time, Linux users numbered two million and Microsoft users numbered 300 million. I used to say Linux makes more news than anything else and I owned a Linux company.

"In April 1999, D.H. Brown Associates, Inc. published a report called Linux: How Good Is It? Hardly any archives exist today mentioning that story with the possible exception of this C/Net News article..."

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