From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII From: Aharon Robbins Message-id: <201210171949.q9HJnfon003990@skeeve.com> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:49:41 +0200 To: 9fans@9fans.net User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 6/20/10 Subject: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop Topicbox-Message-UUID: bee2a402-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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