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PCWorld: Linux voted “most promising software newcomer”

Thanks to Phillip
Brown
for this link.

PC World is giving out awards for the Best
Products of 1999
. Linux gets the award for “most promising
software newcomer”.

“… this was the year Linux emerged as a legitimate competitor
to Microsoft Windows… Thanks to a worldwide team of talented,
unpaid programmers, Linus Torvalds’s brainchild is stable,
powerful, and… free.”

“… this underdog could end up being Bill Gates’s worst
nightmare.”

Complete
story
.

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