Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Apr 2008 16:26 UTC, submitted by sjvn
"Recently, both Novell and Red Hat went on record as dismissing the idea that the consumer Linux desktop is going to be taking off anytime soon. It's not? Has anyone told Asus and Xandros? Everex and gOS? How about Dell and Ubuntu? They're all doing great with consumer Linux desktops." The enterprise Linux leaders are not the ones making strides on the desktop. Does that mean that the Linux desktop has no future, or just that they've let their business focus let them drop the ball on that segment of the market?
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Actually, that's exactly what it means. Maybe not huge, overwhelming strides, but non-negligible strides nonetheless. If Linux weren't making any strides on the desktop these deals wouldn't be happening. These aren't non-profit companies; there's a money driven reason why more vendors have been shipping desktop Linux in the last couple of years. They're not doing it because they want more people to use Linux, they're doing it because more people are using Linux.
In this case, the market is the judge, jury and executioner, and they have clearly been ruling against Linux this far, and I do not see how some small time deals with a few vendors is going to change that any time soon.
How does this ever change? By getting people familiar. Start putting Linux in schools and universities, start putting it in government offices. Once people see it, use it and are familiar with it, they are much more apt to look into it for themselves.
These 'small time deals' aren't meant to change anything. They are not the cause, they are the effect. The cause is the market being more open to Linux than in the past. Getting Linux into schools, universities and governments is happening now. Which is driving these 'small time deals'.
Edited 2008-04-18 19:54 UTC