Linked by David Adams on Wed 6th Aug 2008 15:32 UTC
After 10 years of supporting Linux, IBM continues to challenge Microsoft on multiple fronts and aims to push Linux even further into the enterprise. While IBM has competed and partnered with Microsoft over the last two decades, the Microsoft-free PC effort is perhaps its most direct assault yet. "The idea of Microsoft-free personal computing has been in the air for a while," Inna Kuznetsova, director of Linux at IBM, told InternetNews.com. "We're just partnering with Linux distribution vendors and hardware vendors to make it happen."
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2005-11-20
IMO the main show-stopper problem here is that you basically cannot produce closed-source applications for Linux.
In situation that even two versions of the same distro are not fully binary compatible makes development and distribution of Linux applications nearly impossible.
The best you can do is to release about 12 versions for major distros and possibly extend the set with each new distro release.
Technically, Linux desktop is there. What holds it is in fact politics.