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Boston.com: Eric Schmidt: Chairman and CEO, Google Inc.

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 7, 2002

“…it turns out that it’s Linux and PCs that are built
by hand. Which I find sort of moderately disturbing because, in my
career, I’ve spent 20 years making that not be the correct answer.
And yet it turns out that the PC is the best choice because we use
desktop components and we have so many PCs that we buy incredibly
cheaply. … And Linux has a number of [advantages], including the
fact that all the undergraduates coming out of the top universities
now are Linux programmers.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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