iTWire: Maddog Says Desktop the Final Frontier for Linux | Linux Today

iTWire: Maddog Says Desktop the Final Frontier for Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 29, 2006

“‘The desktop is actually the last place that Linux has to go
and it is going there,’ says Maddog.

“People are using Linux now for thin clients, in manufacturing
desktops, in point of sale desktops, in educational systems and
things like that and it’s being used more and more by people who
are saying it’s just too expensive to manage all these
licenses…”

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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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