Linux Resources: Wouldn’t It Be Nice…

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 10, 1999

“What if we focused our anti-Microsoft efforts into
petitioning… for an Open Source… release of… Windows 9x?” —
Norman M. Jacobowitz

“Why bother trying to pry the source code out of Redmond when we
could spend more time making Linux a more desktop-friendly OS? My
answer is that anti-MS sentiment will continue to abound within the
Linux community, no matter what, so why not focus the sentiment
towards trying to draw Microsoft into the real world … where
source code is available and software just works better?”

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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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