Weekend fun for the OS junkies. A collection of some interesting quotes from the three influential figures in the history of Operating Systems. Some of the quotes are controversial and some of them are just shockingly funny. Personal favorite: Steve Jobs' quote about Bill Gates "He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."
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Member since:2007-09-06
Uh.. OS based on Linux have been running perfectly for many people as desktop installs. The mythic "Desktop Linux" arrived years ago.
For "desktop Linux", let's give up the "year of the linux desktop" crap; it arrived a long time ago and we don't need to relive it every time some new user to Linux goes through the romantic honeymoon fase.
As for Apple's market share, that is there own decision based on corporate startegy. I can't help you there but unless your a key investor, I wouldn't worry about it much. It does not prove anything versus any other platform outside of retail popularity.
Overall, the quotes chosen amuzed me. They did paint MS with a rather dark shade but I don't think ut was undeserving. Some more evenly balanced quotes would have been ok too but the chosen quotes did represent the three people well enough.
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2005-07-06
Was thinking the same.
These guys are so narrow-minded... to a point they don't try to hide they're silly anymore.
I would have asked Torvalds where's desktop Linux is or Jobs how come he got some 1% marketshare in 8 years. Maybe they have some quotes about that ;-)