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To: i-node who wrote (4654)	2/25/2000 6:25:00 PM
From: David R	Read Replies (1) of 5102

RE:With all due respect, I think this is the most shortsighted statement since Bill Gates declared 640K "enough for anybody". That's pretty bad. I suppose that we have to disagree. I just fail to see the long term appeal to re-inventing the MSFT desktop and all the apps that go with it. I see not one compelling reason why that majority of PC users will just move to Linux. Why? What do they gain? How many PC users do you think really care about open source? OLE may be ugly, but who cares. The programmers, maybe, but not the users. The Viso diagrams and the spreadsheet charts paste into the Word document and everything works. Albeit with an occasional crash, but what fool thinks that a tightly integrated Linux desktop would crash any less. Come on David, you have been in the business for years. As long as MSFT does not crash and burn with Office and Windows, the users will not migrate. Who wants to learn a new WP? What company wants to spend millions to move from Windows clients to Linux, and force a company-wide re-training? And what is the pay-off? It just does not make sense. Linux is compelling in the server market. Desktop? Not for the masses. Not this year or next.

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