Linux will fail if it is forced to serve the wrong goal.
If, instead of being a better tool to solve developers’ needs,
Linux becomes the latest proxy for Microsoft’s competitors, it will
fade into obscurity. This is where Apple, Borland, Novell,
Netscape, et al. went wrong. By becoming obsessed with Microsoft
instead of serving their customers, these companies forgot that the
point of making products is developing solutions to real problems,
not dinging the largest competitor.
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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