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:Bill Gates: Our Most Potent Operating System Competitor is Linux
Bill Gates: Our Most Potent Operating System Competitor is Linux
Jun 23, 2009, 17 :19 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (7561 reads)

(Other stories by Roy Schestowitz)

[ Thanks to Roy Schestowitz for this link. ]

"Our most potent Operating System competitor is Linux and the phenomena around Open Source and free software. The same phenomena fuels competitors to all of our products. The ease of picking up Linux to learn it or to modify some piece of it is very attractive. The academic community, start up companies, foreign governments and many other constituencies are putting their best work into Linux. "

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What the heck is "discomaeetion" in micr ...   Language   
Don Whitbeck
Jun 23, 2009, 18:17:28
 
> What the heck is "discomaeetion" in mi ...   Re: Language   
Padma
Jun 23, 2009, 20:51:59
 
There's a lot of talk everywhere --  ...   The will to debate...   
Neko Nata
Jun 24, 2009, 04:16:47
 
> There's a lot of talk everywhere - ...   Re: The will to debate...   
Rainer Weikusat
Jun 24, 2009, 18:15:55
 
me> > There's a lot of talk everywhe ...   Re: Re: The will to debate...   
Neko Nata
Jun 24, 2009, 23:01:02
 
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