Microsoft losing ground to Open Source Movement

September 3, 1999 at 10:18 AM · Filed under Software

Robert Cringley has just written a really interesting article on how he
sees the future shaping up for Microsoft, Intel and the Open Source
Movement and why. Yep, maybe we will all be running Linux and some free
Office Suite in the future… I can’t remember what it was like when we
were all running Atari’s, Amiga’s, Commodore’s and Mac’s and Windows
was slowly building its presence – it was probably similar, and no one
paid attention to Windows until they were actually running it
themselves.

He has also written a lot of really interesting articles in the past
that are worth taking a look at it. Just click the ‘Old Hat’ link.

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Superbowl Commercial for Linux?

September 2, 1999 at 10:13 PM · Filed under Cool, Misc, Software

Ok, there really isn’t a commercial to be aired for Linux during the next Superbowl, but this writer got to thinking about what such a commercial would be like. The cool thing here is all of the follow-on ideas that were generated by the readers. Some of them are pretty funny, and when you think about it, many of them would make really good ads. (See, you don’t need to be in Advertising to come up with this stuff, just a decent imagination).

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