Linux Times: Why Linux Matters? – Part II

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 28, 2004

[ Thanks to Tarun
Agnani
for this link. ]

4. Linux means Choice: What’s your favorite
ice cream flavor? Chocolate chip? Butterscotch, maybe. When you go
to the ice cream shop, you expect them to have a lot of flavors to
choose from right? Not if you visit the Microsoft Ice Cream
store.

“Sure, it’s big and efficient and they’ve got hundreds of
workers there. But all they serve is vanilla. Well you can make ice
cream at home (not an option) or go to one of their competitors
(it’s hard to find them for some reason) or you better start liking
vanilla…”


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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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