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The Path To Linux Desktop Domination Is Through The Clouds
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| I know purists in the Free Software world may not agree with me. Like Richard
| Stallman, they will argue that Cloud based services are proprietary blackhole
| and it should be avoided at all cost. Being an insider (an ardent supporter
| of Free Software), I have a question to my fellow Free Software enthusiasts
| and evangelists. Did we ever worry about the code that went into the
| integrated chips that were part of the machines on which we ran our Free
| Software Didn’t we abstract it out as hardware and not bother about the
| proprietary code, design, etc. inside them? Why can’t we do the same with
| Cloud based services? Why can’t we abstract out the software, offered as a
| service, and worry about other important things like Open Formats, Data
| Ownership, Data Portability, etc.? Why can’t we abstract out the Cloud
| Storage service and see if we can manage our data using Open Protocols on
| them? Yes, We Can. If we accept this kind of abstraction in Cloud Services
| and embrace it, we can also make Linux the dominant Desktop OS.
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http://www.cloudave.com/link/the-path-to-linux-desktop-domination-is-through-the-clouds
“Analysts sell out - that’s their business model… But they are very concerned
that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very
prickly to work with.”
–Microsoft, internal document
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
Recent:
Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google
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| "Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he said. "How
| are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it. ... We have some
| work to do."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151568/ballmer_still_searching_for_an_answer_to_google.html
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