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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