The Eternal Windows-Linux Battle: No Winner, Just Duopoly
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| "Vista is the best $6 billion I have ever spent" said Bill Gates at
| this year?s CES. Is that enough for Microsoft to finally defeat the
| open source threat? Definitely NOT.
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| Paradoxically, the long discussed Windows piracy is actually an enemy
| of open source and a precious help for Microsoft. In countries where
| piracy is registering high rates (like China, Russia or Brazil) the
| OSS has the lowest levels of market penetration and the Windows
| platform rules. Moreover, Microsoft can even turn (and be sure
| that it is already doing that) the piracy into profit.
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| There are of course other reasons to discuss here (like the
| social desirability of Linux vs. Windows or the gaming), but I
| preferred the general frame of the Linux-Windows battle because
| this frame comes first. Open source community should rest assured
| though that the only way Windows is ever going to beat Linux is by
| making the price equal to zero, which is of course impossible. And
| as long as there are Linux developers, Vista (or any other future OS
| emanating from Microsoft) will always face a threat.
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