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Anyone remember a zinger from Linus Torvalds a couple of decades ago: "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional si
by ThrowawayR2 2y ago
Anyone remember a zinger from Linus Torvalds a couple of decades ago: "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." (https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-9-28-03-questions-for-linus-torvalds-the-sharer.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/magazine/the-way-we-live-...)? Horribly ironic that the Year of Linux On the Desktop™ turns out to have been ushered in by Microsoft as a subsystem firmly under Windows' thumb. How the old /. crowd would have wailed and gnashed their teeth to find out what the future turned out to be.