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It needs commercial success
jscott418 5th Nov 2009
What Linux does not have is commercial success. I think
the Linux based cell phones are a perfect way to do this.
Google and brands like Motorola with providers like
Verizon will go a long way to excel the open source
projects. Yet, the PC has still eluded the Linux community.
I think mostly because Windows and even now to some
extent Apple's Mac PC have become staples for the PC
community and their just is not room for another. Even
Apple had a hard time until just a few years ago when XP
was growing old and Apple switch to the Intel CPU's
provided a way to run Windows as a secondary OS. That
put Apple in the drivers seat. It also helped to have the
iPods and iTunes. But lets face it. iTunes still runs on PC
way more then on a Mac. PC's no matter what Apple says
about them. They control the computer world. Linux is
much better off working into these niche markets.
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