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Linux-Watch: Is Gates’ Retirement Linux’s Chance?

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jun 16, 2006

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“On June 15, Bill Gates announced that he would be retiring from
Microsoft in July 2008, and everything changed.

“It may be two years away, but when a giant the size of Gates
moves, the world moves with him. And, in that movement, in this
period of change, Linux may have its best chance ever to seize the
marketplace momentum from Microsoft…”

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SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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