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Fighting the “Legacy” Reputations of GNU/Linux, Seventeen Years Later

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 14, 2008

“I don’t blame him for his assumption. I’ve had plenty of cases
where printer manufacturers were doing special — undocumented
— things with the Windows drivers. It’s also fairly
unfortunate to have two printers experience very similar problems
one after the other so his assumption that it might be the PC was a
pretty good guess. But what bothers me is that someone who has had
so much success with GNU/Linux can still believe that Windows would
automatically succeed where GNU/Linux hadn’t.”


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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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