Re: Ubuntu (Linux); my first experience of...

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:01:54 -0800, Robin wrote:
[big snip about Linux success]

I thought that the future would be the Mac but now I am not so sure,
even Linux stands a chance. No way is it going to be Vista.

I don't understand why Bill Gates hasn't discovered Linux yet -
He could download the kernel for free, put his codemonkeys to
porting the eye candy, and sell "Microsoft Linux" for an arbitrary
amount of money. (I think the penguin is copyrighted, but he could
still use those stupid flying window things.)

I think the GPL even lets you sell proprietary drivers along with
the open source stuff - the only part that you have to release on
the GPL is stuff that's already GPL'd.

The other day, in Fry's ad, I saw a basic system with "Linspire"
already installed; I looked up Linspire and it's a Linux kernel
that they've written the wrappers for and sell it for about $50.00,
which is cool. Heck, I even paid $40.00 for Slackware once! ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

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