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On Pi, Paper Penguins and FOSS' Regal Potential
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| "M$ is already beginning to compete on price
| with the netbooks and XP," he told
| LinuxInsider. "In another year or two they
| will be competing on price for any PC, and
| their prices and share of units sold will be
| drastically reduced."
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| The share of GNU/Linux reached the tipping
| point in 2009, Pogson asserted.
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| "The avalanche has started to move slowly down
| the mountain, and it will pick up speed by the
| end of 2010 with thin clients and
| netbooks/smartbooks taking over the
| landscape," he predicted. "M$ has made a
| billion dollars a quarter less than is their
| 'natural right of a monopolist' in the client
| lately. Let us watch that continue as
| GNU/Linux grows share."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/On-Pi-Paper-Penguins-and-FOSS-Regal-Potential-69101.html
Related:
Open source business model reaching tipping point
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| Over the last several years open source has grown in stature and maturity,
| becoming more worthy in the eyes of corporate buyers and investors. Everyone
| could point to Red Hat, which dominates the Linux operating system space, as
| the poster child for open source but few other âpureâ open source companies
| rose up to that level. Sun has gradually been making its vast portfolio of
| software open source under various licenses, embracing the notion of FOSS
| (Free and Open Source Software). âVolume drives everything, and developers
| are picking free and open source software,â Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has
| said.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7674
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