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Education HegimonyEducation HegimonyPosted Feb 2, 2006 23:42 UTC (Thu) by glynmoody (guest, #34032)In reply to: Education Hegimony by GreyWizard Parent article: Linux in Italian schools - five months later
I'm not saying this approach leads to a perpetual desktop monopoly, simply that it's a good way of seeding later sales. Apple once dominated classrooms, and soon did well in the business sector. But it failed to consolidate its position in corporates with the Apple III and Lisa, and PC/MS-DOS took over before the Macintosh could get established.
Apple lost its dominance, and Microsoft may do the same. But only if somebody comes along - as IBM/Microsoft did with Apple - and takes it away. At the moment, I don't see much evidence of that happening, and this worries me.
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