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Stephen Fry: "Deliver us from Microsoft"
Saturday, February 2. 2008
Stephen Fry introduces the open source platform that will see off Windows:
Column “Dork Talk” published on Saturday February 2nd 2008 in The Guardian
“Deliver us from Microsoft” - The Guardian headline
The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan’t burden you with too much detail, I’ll just make the outrageous claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two within the next five years and that your life will be better and happier as a result.
Column “Dork Talk” published on Saturday February 2nd 2008 in The Guardian
“Deliver us from Microsoft” - The Guardian headline
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Sadly I'm not entirely convinced that it will be entirely down to the merits of Linux, an operating system that I personally champion.
The greater part of the downfall of windows lies with the actions of Microsoft, who appear with their latest version rather aptly called 'Vista' to have totally lost sight of the future.
In a period of 'Green' is good, the mass transporting of perfectly adequate personal computers to land fill sites, simply because the latest loss of vision by Microsoft demands a computer with the ability of a sledgehammer in order to crack what was formally a small nut, runs completely against current trends.
Open source on the other hand embraces old, but still useable hardware, and dare I say it even manages to coax better performance out of it than the operating systems that were its contemporaries.
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