Re: Dream OS = Linux

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From: Mats Andtbacka
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 12:13

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Patrick O'Neil, in <Pine.SOL.3.91.950926174717.16026A-100000@howard>:

>And this is precisely why it will never be a mainstream, generally 
>accepted OS...MOST computer users do not program.

"Mainstream" I'll give you, but "generally accepted" I would say it
already is - for the things it does well, in the niches it fits best.

Nobody's claiming Linux is the universal solvent which will drive
mickey$oft out of business (well, nobody with half a brain, anyway),
but those things it does, it does _amazingly_ well.

With a user base well in the millions already, I can't see it
disappearing overnight any more; though it'll never be on every
desktop, it's already a good long while since it was "unaccepted".
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From: mandtbac@stina1.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka)
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Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux
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