“Perhaps it would be more correct to say that Linux will be but
one actor in the final play, only one ant in the column that comes
to eat Microsoft, one bacterium in the cleansing plague unleashed
by the likes of Richard Stallman.”
“It should be noted that Microsoft won’t be the only victim of
the ant column. Other companies that are too stupid to join the
march, or at least get out of the way, will feel the agony of the
Death of a Thousand Lost Sales. But many others will survive. And
many will prosper….”
“And Linux is not the cause of all of this. Linux is a
symptom. The software, inheriting a persona from its authors,
simply wants to be free.“
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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