On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:09:32 +0000, B Gruff
<bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Saturday 18 February 2006 07:37 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> What is intersing is that Linux achieved expansion in a different way from
>> that which Microsoft had chosen. Linux is free and relies on the GPL (or
>> its 'relatives'). Microsoft turned a blind eye to piracy, thereby making
>> it virtually free to most people. The skills and files (information, data)
>> were then 'locked', so the legal barrier could finally rise.
>
>Very succinct.
>Very true:-)
One wonders at this business model. Was it planned from the
first or was it taken advantage of when it finally
developed?
Almost like a drug dealer giving out free samples until
their clients got hooked.
I know that there was tremendous resistance from large
corporations to allow their staff to use PC's instead of
dumb workstations at the beginning. It was only when a
significant percentage of people had purchased home PC's and
trained themselves on their own dime that the corporations
changed their way of thinking.
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