[ Thanks to Kevin
Reichard for this link. ]
“Last week’s editorial on Microsoft and Linux provoked the
most responses via e-mail (as well as responses posted on Linux
Today) in the history of LinuxPlanet. Since we don’t have
talkbacks on LinuxPlanet yet (they are in the works, however), many
of you reading the column via e-mail had no public mechanism for
responding to the column–so you did the next best thing and
deluged me with e-mail. Virtually all of the responses were
intelligent and made for interesting reading, even (and probably
especially) those that disagreed with what I wrote. Featured
here are the best of the responses.”
“There is one thing, however, that all the letter writers
wrongly assumed: that when I spoke of the browser of the future, I
was speaking of Mozilla. Not necessarily. For the record, my
personal viewpoint is that within the next two or three years (the
timeframe used in the original column), the Konqueror Web browser
will be a major force in the Linux world. We are seeing the power
of the Open Source movement, and it won’t be long before projects
developed under the KDE and GNOME umbrellas will surpass commercial
software.”