The Next Leap for Linux

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I missed this great Larry Magid article in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago, on how more barriers are falling for GNU/Linux, and tells of Linux's new place of prominence, despite its still small share of the market.

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Semi-related is David Pogue's article on OLPC. And whatever you do, don't miss Pogue's video — it's great.

Unless Microsoft is going to start giving away Windows, then more than a billion new computer users around the globe will be using GNU/Linux. Microsoft won't lose it dominance, but at least it will no longer be first-choice by default.

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Semi-related is David Pogue's article on OLPC. And whatever you do, don't miss Pogue's video — it's great.

Unless Microsoft is going to start giving away Windows, then more than a billion new computer users around the globe will be using GNU/Linux. Microsoft won't lose it dominance, but at least it will no longer be first-choice by default.

Will it change the scenario outside the third-world countries, though?