Linux has won!

[Nadav Har'El]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2011, Stan Goodman wrote about "Re: Linux has won!":
> To emphasize the above, recall that there was a time when most of the 
> ATMs in the United States were running OS/2, and many (including myself) 
> fell into the trap of concluding that OS/2 had a bright future for that 
> reason, Somehow things didn't quite work out that way.

This is a good point, but I think the situation is now different: It's not
just one type of business device that has Linux - it's almost every new
"smart" device, and devices that people commonly bring into their home.
And many of these devices (especially Android) do give the users some feeling
of an "operating system", unlike the situation of ATMs.

> Linux has made good inroads inside devices where the proverbial "Jake 
> the Plumber" doesn't see it and doesn't know it is there. Windows, on 
> the other hand is literally the only OS he has ever seen or heard of.

Right. Linux is not receiving the publicity it deserves. So it has one,
but nobody knows it yet ;-)

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