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Linux needs a recession to replace Windows

Linux needs a recession to replace Windows

Posted Oct 10, 2008 12:57 UTC (Fri) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018)
Parent article: Linux at 17 - What Windows promised to be (the Register)

> It will take a tremendous force - perhaps a global recession or depression - to make companies think about learning Linux and investing in the technology rather than go with what feels like the safe choice of using Windows.

Let's hope that the one hitting us now will have at least that positive effect then, because all I see are homeless and perhaps soon jobless people, and having the luck of not being one of them (at least for now) does not make me feel much better about it all.


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