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I wanted to buy it because you got an inflatable penguin with the boxed set. Later on I worked at Xandros, which was what became of Corel Linux after Microsoft
by bregma 7y ago
I wanted to buy it because you got an inflatable penguin with the boxed set.
Later on I worked at Xandros, which was what became of Corel Linux after Microsoft infused cash into Corel. They had inflatable penguins and Netwinders (another Corel spinoff) everywhere in the office, because apparently nobody was willing to buy Linux. Eventually Xandros went under because nobody was willing to buy Linux. I went to work for Canonical on Ubuntu, but eventually they, too, got out of the desktop Linux business because you can't make money on something nobody is willing to buy.
I guess they should have sold inflatable penguins and included a free CD with Linux on instead.