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Negroponte succumbs

Posted Apr 26, 2008 8:27 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Negroponte succumbs by man_ls
Parent article: Negroponte on OLPC's commitment to Sugar

"Most people" have no opinion about Linux because they've never heard of it...  If they have
heard of it, the opinion is more likely to be "too techie" than "bad" (what does "bad" mean
for an OS anyway?).

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Negroponte succumbs

Posted Apr 26, 2008 9:38 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

"Bad" means in this context "cheap", "of poor quality". I suppose part of this reputation is due to companies giving it away. Its presence in low cost computers may also be a factor. Most people don't know e.g. that the vast majority of supercomputers run Linux (although they have most certainly heard of Linux).