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To: ToySoldier who wrote (12061)	11/5/1998 8:56:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 74651

But Linux is after much more than the server market. They want to penetrate MSFT's desktop market. This has so far proven to be a pretty significant challenge for the Linux OSS development model, in fact I would say that they have no likely path to any significant desktop presence. Ensuring compatibility with the huge base of applications, getting mindshare with ISVs, developing a distribution model, getting the OEMs to care about it - all are daunting challenges. These are not the glamorous tasks that freelance hackers like to do - testing for compatibility and providing the kind of support that tens of thousands of software developers expect is dull work. OS/2, which was actually a pretty good desktop OS, pushed hard by the largest computer vendor in the world, failed to make any inroads into the desktop market despite huge investment, good compatibility with existing applications, and better performance and stability than Windows.

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