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Linux Journal: Linux Support From the Strangest Places

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 24, 1999

Microsoft: We’ll help you get that penguin, er, monkey off
your back.

“As a committed hacker, you don’t have issues, you have
problems: the relatively slow introduction of new Linux ports, the
calls from friends and relatives hitting you up for cash now that
“Lay-nix” has made the Wall Street Journal … at times it seems as
if the best lack GPL, and the worst are filled with passionate
proprietaries….”

“And at the top of the list: how to get that…Linux offa your
computer and put a fine Windows 2000 or NT system in its
place.”

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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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