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Correct: Judge Motz may have understood the argument in the previous page --> previous paragraph | 63 comments | Create New Account

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Future OS alternatives

Authored by: Chromatix on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 07:39 AM EDT

WordPerfect on Linux, done properly, might easily have accelerated the acceptance of Linux on the desktop (especially in corporate), if WordPerfect itself were still more relevant than M$ Office. Only having to pay for the hardware and the application would have been very attractive, and knowing that the hardware wouldn't go obsolete so quickly is also a very powerful argument among people who think more than a few years ahead.

A similar argument could be made for the Mac, but honestly I think Jobs-era Apple already sold as many Macs as the market would support.

More likely there would have been more demand for "network computer" type semi-thin clients running Linux, small and silent on the desk beside the monitor, and still more than powerful enough to run office software.

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Novell probably would have priced things to encourage that. (n/t) - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 06:21 PM EDT
back to the ... Future OS alternatives - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 24 2012 @ 04:07 PM EDT

Correct: Judge Motz may have understood the argument in the previous page --> previous paragraph

Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 06:30 PM EDT

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