Linux Journal: Free Software’s Secret Weapon: FOOGL

“It’s a long-standing joke in the free software world that this
will be the year when we see GNU/Linux make its breakthrough on the
desktop–just like last year, and the year before that. What’s
really funny is that all the key GNU/Linux desktop apps are already
being widely deployed, but not in the way that people have long
assumed.

“The indestructible optimism about GNU/Linux appearing on the
desktop seems to be the result of a misguided view that since it
grew from insignificance in the server sector to become a serious
challenger to Microsoft Windows there, the same is bound to happen
to GNU/Linux on the client side…”

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