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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RE[3]: Microsoft-free PC hurdles
by Kroc on Thu 7th Aug 2008 08:22
in reply to "RE[2]: Microsoft-free PC hurdles"
Member since:2005-11-10
Sorry, my post was not in direct reply to yours (to which I agree to); I was just tagging onto a particular issue that rags me.
I'm not saying that people at home shouldn't be allowed to buy photoshop! They can buy what they want, but people cannot say that Linux on the desktop is a waste of time just because Adobe don't support it.
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2005-07-05
Maybe you'd like to read my post again before you get into a huff. I never said that Photoshop was required in order for Linux to breach the desktop market. I don't personally think it is. I said that 3rd party apps were one of the reasons; and that is 100% true.
Also, I am a home user and I've owned legal licenses for Photoshop and Illustrator since the early 90s. I disagree that "home" users don't need Photoshop. I use it all the time. Nonetheless, I primarily use Linux (Debian) and think it is the best OS available today. I just switch to OS X when I want to do graphics work.
Edited 2008-08-07 06:11 UTC