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Subject: Re: Linux: how probable is it that it will be relevant in the near future?

Author: Peter Herttrich

Date: 04:06:01 11/11/98

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On November 11, 1998 at 01:30:24, Oliver Y. wrote:

>Here's a quote from PCWorld's report on the convention at Santa Clara, CA:
>
>'Moritz and Dyson assert that the Linux operating system could prove to be one
>of the most important innovations of all as "hordes of programmers" work to
>develop applications for the so-called open source operating system, which is
>more accessible than Microsoft Windows since its source code is freely
>available. "Open source turns your customers into your developers," says Dyson.
>"It's a fundamental change."'
>
>How 'difficult' would it be to have competitive software appearing in Linux?
>When, in a meaningful way?  (not including those that are platform independent
>already)

In the moment LINUX eats parts of the servermarket.
In 2 years you will see the same with the desktopmarket.
So, programmers, develop chessprograms for LINUX now, and u will be
there in 1 1/2 or two years. Take the Xboard as GUI, which will be
undoubtly more state of the art. Thanks to Tim Mann.

Peter




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