Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Oct 1998 09:48:36 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Linux vs Microsoft |
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On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:04:15PM +0100, Tim Towers wrote:
> Hmm, commercially, I would expect all the > "open source" medievel knights to get mown > down by the Microsoft Tank. Once you've shipped > an OS with the PC that people buy they'll > generally stick with it, and in an office > environment the OS and App mix from Microsoft > makes a lot of sense on the desktop.
Then again... they might just get sick and tired of having to use a slow buggy OS.
Plenty of people do... I would hazard a guess that most of the 8 million or so linux users originally used Windows<something> before they switched.
-cw
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