ZDNET UK: Under the counter Definite Linux sells like hot cakes | Linux Today

ZDNET UK: Under the counter Definite Linux sells like hot cakes

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 28, 1999

“Although the Windows NT forum is perhaps the last place you’d
expect to find fans of Linux, there was evidence even the most
hardened advocates of expensive mainstream software are starting to
come around to the ways of open-source.”

One vendor of NT printing software in fact confidentially
revealed that he had taken to selling boxes of Definite Linux,
acquired from the IT Forum next door, under the counter at his
stand. This unlikely Linux convert also confessed that editions of
this UK distribution of Linux were selling like hot
cakes.

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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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