Aiding the Evil Empire?
According to some financial resources, this year Linux will overtake Apple as the second largest operating system to Microsoft OS’s. You want to talk about Irony? That’s right, (with a capital I!) the anti-establishment open-source community is slowly but surely doing what Microsoft isn’t allowed to do with it’s anti-trust allegations, which is put people out of business.
Linux, unwittingly took Sun Microsystems out of the game by taking their Unix business model, including OS licenses at $3000 a pop and enticed customers with the much cheaper Linux, which is FREE! There is no way to beat free, just ask Netscape.
Now, as the open source community keeps Linux moving and it is being adopted by PC manufacturers, it was only natural that Linux would overtake Apple by enabling hardware OEM’s to offer PC’s for well under $500 with the Linux operating system. But, the idea was to take out Microsoft’s legs. Really, what they did was convert a lot of the Apple people who are anti-Microsoft to Linux people. At a pricing point under $500 Apple can’t even come close to competing. Their systems still run well over $1000 all the way up to around $3000. Even the most loyal people on earth can’t (or won’t be able to) deal with that discrepancy.
It is true that this is just a by-product of competing with Microsoft, but it is ironic in its result, as most Linux followers love to hate Gates so much. In the short term they are helping the giant, but ultimately their goal is to unseat them as the dominant player in computers from personal desktops to servers.
Ironic with a capital I if you ask me.
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