Giving Silos Their Due | Linux Today

Giving Silos Their Due

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Feb 3, 2016

Two things I got way wrong, way back.

One was Linux on the Desktop (LOTD). Around the turn of the Millennium, I predicted big successes for LOTD and Linux on the Laptop (LOTL)—and continued to do the same, annually, until I gave up.

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