“WHEN MATT WELSH INTRODUCES A Microsoft-dependent computer user
to a Linux box, he can’t start by explaining that Linux is
different from Windows. He has to explain that Linux is not
Windows. Otherwise, “people will say, ‘Oh, well, this is nice —
what version of Windows do I need to run it?'”
“People have always equated Windows and the Intel-based PC,”
Welsh says. “They sometimes don’t understand that it’s an operating
system — that it’s not part of the hardware. They don’t even
understand what an operating system is.”
“We’re building a generic architecture of Internet services that
scales up to billions of users.”