[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“At the 1999 LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose, Calif., Linus Torvalds
joked about his goal for the operating system he started: ‘Total
world domination.’“Six years later, Linux has won a spot in government workplaces
around the globe.“Because Linux can run on older, cheaper hardware, agencies can
extend the hardware’s lifecycle. Even with a support contract with
Red Hat Inc. or Novell Inc., the acquisition cost of Linux is tiny
in contrast to deploying a new version of Windows on existing
hardware…”
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