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____/ JCrowe on Monday 18 August 2008 18:14 : \____
> Ramon F Herrera wrote:
>> We all know the "secret" of Redmont's success: leverage the monopoly
>> power on the Operating System marketplace in order to force clueless
>> user towards MS applications. Never mind that some (most?) of the
>> strategies used are of an illegal nature.
>
> Regardless of what the courts say, Microsoft has never had a
> monopoly in OSs. The only way to have a monopoly in a free market
> is to enforce it through government decree. Microsoft has done some
> unethical things in its business practices, however, and it has not
> IMO produced many good products.
>
>>
>> "The operating system may be losing its luster. In fact, you could
>> argue that the operating system–Linux, OS X and Windows–will become an
>> application that just happens to boot first. And hardware vendors are
>> on to the OS’s diminishing importance.
>
> This trend has been going on for a very long time. The actual OS,
> which is after all a resource manager, is not what users interact
> with directly in modern computer environments. Further more, it has
> been that way for a very long time....at least since the late 70s...
>>
>> Let’s connect a few dots:"
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9682&tag=nl.e539
>>
>> -RFH
Microsoft may have a desktop O/S monopoly, but the Linux kernel (some GNU
utilities also) are big in much broader areas like devices.
The hierarchy in comp.os.linux.advocacy is deceiving because linux is now an
os. It's a platform. The challenge is to make Free software become prevalent
on people's desktop operating systems. Firefox is a good start.
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