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"I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft -- a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. I don't think it will be very successful in the long run..
by bumbledraven 18y ago
"I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft -- a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. I don't think it will be very successful in the long run... My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse. In a non-PC environment, it just won't hold up...."
- FooBarWidget 18y ago"Linux is just a toy OS and will never be used in business critical environments" - popular opinion in 2000.
- wingo 18y agoHe was probably right, in 1999.
- donaq 18y ago<joke>He was just saying that to lull Microsoft into a false sense of security.</joke> Still, I wonder what he thinks about Linux and the open source process today.