There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
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In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
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I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.
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The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
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There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
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I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.
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The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
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We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
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I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.
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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
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We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.
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The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.
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I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.
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I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.
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Linux is only free if your time has no value.
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A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
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Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
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I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.
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And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.
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