Linux v. Microsoft: Third World Showdown
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| Shuttleworth and his team at Ubuntu have done something amazing -they've
| created a truly usable desktop operating system that rivals WindowsXP in
| ease of use and features, accomplishing finally what many of us so long
| felt impossible - they've mirrored the simple elegance of the underlying
| system with an interface and applications that make it a delight to use.
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| Personally, if I were setting up a company, a school, or a non-profit
| organization tomorrow I would use it on nearly every desktop and
| laptop.
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| Or, perhaps, when one of the distributions of Linux - possibly Ubuntu,
| possibly another - catches and surpasses Windows in usability to such an
| extent that for a broad base of the computing population Windows is just
| so old, clunky, and so uncool , that it gets set aside and forgotten. In
| the wake of the delays and feature-shrinkage surrounding Windows Vista,
| is that so inconceivable?
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| I think that's what Shuttleworth is working toward. And that's when the
| world will have the "free choice" Steve Ballmer likes to talk about.
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