The Economist envisions Ubuntu opening standards across the net
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| It's that time again when pundits are assembling their top ten lists of the
| previous year and holding forth with bold new predictions for the coming year
| (and only rarely bothering to tie last year's predictions with this year's
| top ten). This holds true at the venerable Economist magazine as well,
| apparently, where the Science and Technology "Tech.View" delivers "Three
| Fearless Predictions" for 2008; among these is the proposition
| that "Surfing-and everything else computer-related-will open."
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| The author credits Ubuntu Linux, of all things, with opening people's eyes to
| Linux in the wake of SCO's failed lawsuit, and thence leading them unto the
| church of open standards.
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http://www.cio-weblog.com/50226711/the_economist_envisions_ubuntu_opening_standards_across_the_net.php
Quote for the day:
"No corporate PC manager, in fact no one outside of the Microsoft organization,
has ever described a Web browser to me as operating system software or as part
of Windows 95 or any other operating system."
--Glenn Weadock
Related:
Technology in 2008
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| Pundits agree: neither Microsoft nor Apple can compete at the new price
| points being plumbed by companies looking to cut costs. With open-source
| software maturing fast, Linux, OpenOffice, Firefox, MySQL, Evolution, Pidgin
| and some 23,000 other Linux applications available for free seem more than
| ready to fill that gap. By some reckonings, Linux fans will soon outnumber
| Macintosh addicts. Linus Torvalds should be rightly proud.
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http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10410912
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