[ Thanks to Jane Walker for this link.
]
“Do you think Linux can compete with Microsoft on the
desktop?“Bacon: Sure. The one thing that people tend to
get wrapped up in [is:] ‘Everything should work.’ If you take
Windows and, for argument’s sake, deduce that it performs five
hundred functions, the typical business or home user may only use a
hundred or fifty of those functions. The Linux desktop can probably
achieve nearly all of those functions, but many people disregard
its suitability irrespective of the fact that they may not need
many of the features. Good IT is about applying a solution to a
need…”