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From: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:49:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201210171949.q9HJnfon003990@skeeve.com> (raw)

This says a lot, rather nicely:

	http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html

Having lived through the Unix wars of the 80s and 90s, it's the same
story all over again.

(Or maybe the story never ended. Either way, the users are the ones who lost
out.)

Arnold



             reply	other threads:[~2012-10-17 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-17 19:49 Aharon Robbins [this message]
2012-10-17 20:05 ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-10-17 20:19   ` Rodrigo Miranda
2012-10-18  0:29   ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18  7:31     ` arnold
2012-10-18 13:54       ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 14:20     ` [9fans] new-topic: typographical interface Albert Skye
2012-10-18 15:41       ` Julius Schmidt
2012-10-18 15:42       ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-18 19:37         ` Corey Thomasson
2012-10-18 19:40           ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-24  7:19       ` Albert Skye
2012-10-18  8:36   ` [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop tlaronde
2012-10-18  9:03   ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2012-10-18 12:10     ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-10-18 13:25       ` Nemo
2012-10-18 13:44     ` Stephen Wiley
2012-10-18 14:16   ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-10-18 16:50     ` Robert Raschke
2012-10-18 16:52       ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 17:47         ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-10-17 20:22 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-18 14:18 ` yard-ape
2012-10-18 13:51 Brian L. Stuart
2012-10-18 17:17 ` John Floren
2012-10-18 17:20   ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-10-18 18:32   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-10-18 21:07     ` Calvin Morrison
2012-10-19 15:31   ` Dan Cross

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