[ Thanks to Ed
Centanni for this link. ]
“… in the two years during which the US Justice Department has
pursued its massive antitrust case, the focus of the computer
industry has shifted from the desktop systems where Microsoft
dominates. PCs will be a huge global business for years to come,
but it is a mature market with relatively little room for major
expansion.
“Meanwhile, a surging market in non-PC devices such as hand-held
computers has blossomed, based on software Microsoft does not
control. An upstart computer operating system called Linux,
assembled by amateurs in their spare time, is gaining ground once
safely held by Microsoft. And Internet businesses are
generating billions in sales, competing against Microsoft’s on-line
offerings – and usually winning.”
Ed Centanni adds
this:
According to this survey:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue33/bentson.html
the Linux kernel contributors are a long way from being
amateurs.