Bill Gates: Our Most Potent Operating System Competitor is Linux | Linux Today

Bill Gates: Our Most Potent Operating System Competitor is Linux

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Roy Schestowitz
Jun 23, 2009

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“Our most potent Operating System competitor is Linux and the
phenomena around Open Source and free software. The same phenomena
fuels competitors to all of our products. The ease of picking up
Linux to learn it or to modify some piece of it is very attractive.
The academic community, start up companies, foreign governments and
many other constituencies are putting their best work into Linux.


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Roy Schestowitz

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