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Do We Really Need "Year of GNU/Linux on Desktops"?

  • Subject: Do We Really Need "Year of GNU/Linux on Desktops"?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:22:55 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Red Hat CEO thinks the desktop is becoming a legacy application

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| A running joke at this years LinuxCon is that âX is the year of the Linux 
| desktop.â Jim Zemlin, head of the conferenceâs sponsoring organization, The 
| Linux Foundation, started it with his keynote in noting how often heâd made 
| that prediction and how often heâs been wrong. The current prediction, which I 
| believe Linus Torvalds made last night was : â2031! The year of the Linux 
| desktop.â Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, has another year in mind for the 
| Linux desktop though: Never. Oh, and the Windows and Mac desktops? Get ready 
| to say good-bye to them soon.
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/red-hat-ceo-thinks-the-desktop-is-becoming-a-legacy-application/9434

Not a very lucrative market. Windows profits keep falling since 2009.
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