“But it wasn’t business as usual at Comdex…”
“This year, the role of innovator and boy genius was usurped by
a fellow with a first name that would be right at home in a comic
strip and an operating system that was once considered a joke by
Microsoft.”
“Torvalds didn’t tell the Comdex crowd that now, based on
alliances with IBM and some other computer giants, Linux should be
taken seriously as competition to Windows in the high-level
business and Internet market. He didn’t shuffle his feet and thank
the computer world for beginning to rally behind the dark horse of
an operating system.”
“Instead, he said of Microsoft: “We will crush them.”