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The Truth About the Linux Desktop Market Share

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 6, 2007

“To understand the markets you have to know something about
magicians, and how they work.

“The magician will typically flourish something or gesture
expansively with his right hand, while surreptitiously moving his
left hand inside his jacket to remove or hide the next object to be
palmed, so the trick with magicians is never look at what they want
you to look at, and all of a sudden everything becomes quite clear,
it is not magic, it is pop psychology, body language and
misdirection…”

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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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