Nickname: Wesley Parish

Review: Every year a head pops up and asks, "Has Linux won on the desktop yet?" And every year some lout smacks the question down with, "Of course not!" Everybody knows that, just like Microsoft, IBM and the PC vis-a-vis the mainframes and minicomputers of the time, the winner is going to be the that fashions a new platform, and gets it to grow. It looks like it's Linux, and it looks like it's the smartphone.

Date reviewed: Dec 31, 2005 10:48 AM

Nickname: loops

Review: Whatever happens, Linux and open source have already forced Microsoft, Apple, and others to make concessions and will continue to extract more value for consumers. Almost every consumer, even those that have never used or heard of Linux, have already benefitted from it in one way or another. Even if Linux doesn't become the dominant cellphone operating system, it will have the same affect in that market.

Date reviewed: Dec 3, 2005 7:30 PM

Nickname: Soulhand

Review: Interesting that you mention that Linux beats various other players in Smartphone operating systems but don't mention the current leader, Symbian, at all!

Date reviewed: Nov 27, 2005 5:30 PM

Nickname: kozmcrae

Review: Let's see: Major media outlet: BusinessWeek; Story: on Linux and other Open Source; Comments: positive; Writer: well informed. Did I just feel a shift in the Earth's axis?

Date reviewed: Nov 22, 2005 11:00 PM

Nickname: Douglas phillipson

Review: Between MS having to open its file formats to others, thus allowing others to compete in the Office application space , Linux excelling in both the supercomputer and Server arenas, and Linux now sweeping the smart devices market. It is only a matter of time... DSP

Date reviewed: Nov 22, 2005 7:03 PM

Nickname: akapp

Review: "But Redmond critics forget sometimes why Microsoft won. [...]Open won over closed." Open vs closed was never the issue. Microsoft won by winning the IBM OS contract. IBM dominated the corporate marketplace and provided the brand name which gave respectability to personal computers. The IBM PC was an overnight success in a market where Apple barely had a toehold. Once the corporate world standardized on the IBM PC, it was only a short hop to the dominance of MS-DOS and Microsoft. If a Microsoft OS had appeared on the market as just one more CP/M challenger, without the link to IBM, it would only be a footnote in todays computer texts. IBM lost to the open platform, Apple was already out of the picture, resigned to the niche market where it has been successful in spite of all predictions of its demise. BTW, Windows didn't appear on the scene until years after these events.

Date reviewed: Nov 22, 2005 5:52 PM

Nickname: Tom B

Review: The move towards LINUX is a great first step. In the final end, though, Apple's OS X, which is also open-sourced at the kernel level, will win out for larger devices (computers).

Date reviewed: Nov 22, 2005 4:12 PM

Nickname: Linux Patil

Review: Linux has not only given opensource product but inaddition it made every people to think in many ways to innovate. It is like "For the people, by the people". I could see myself in near future do contribution in big way.

Date reviewed: Nov 22, 2005 2:43 PM

Nickname: Segin

Review: This is a well wound-out report, and it shows the emphasis on using Linux on small embedded devices (this time, celluar phones)

Date reviewed: Nov 22, 2005 2:11 PM