How Far Behind Is Linux? | Linux Today

How Far Behind Is Linux?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 17, 2007

“If some of Linus Torvalds’s own family members back in Finland
don’t use Linux, what hope is there for the rest of us?

“Linux, the free operating system whose development is overseen
by Mr. Torvalds, has long been entrenched in the worlds of science
and commerce. When Google gives you a search result, a Linux
machine is doing the work. At tens of thousands of other companies,
computer managers take comfort in the fact that these days, no one
ever gets fired for ‘buying’ open source…”


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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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