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1997: Apple was nearly bankrupt: https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech_0806/ https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech_0806/ Not everything changes. 1997 - 20
by melling 9y ago
1997: Apple was nearly bankrupt:
https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech_0806/ https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech_0806/
Not everything changes.
1997 - 2017: Microsoft has 90% desktop market share, but the Year of Linux on the desktop was fast approaching.
Linux not gaining a least some traction was a huge disappointment.
- posterboy 9y agoI do not really see how a system kernel has any bearing on consumer desktop environments. Meanwhile, open-source web-browsers surpassed IE, Android is nominally open-source and so far runs on a heavily modified linux ...