Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 23:41:16 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_wb9493.html > > Wow, same article that has been floating around for, what, the past year > or so? Oh, sure, but I figure the more places people see and hear about Linux the more they take (serious) notice. It helps move it out of the hacker arena into the businessplace, maybe. I've seen this with the Y2K situation. Huge companies (like the one where my wife works) wouldn't get interested a year ago but more recently, as you see it _everywhere_, top management really took notice. Not the same situation by a long shot, I know. Maybe a better example. I started using Tcl/Tk in the office a couple years ago. People (my boss and users) liked the apps that I was producing (at home on my own time). But once they started seeing GUI interfaces in Tcl from various vendors, Sun's involvement, etc, it became more accepted and I get to do it on their time now and get paid for it. I keep saying why buy Sparc 5's (or whatever) as XTerminals, use Linux! But so far, it hasn't been seriously considered. They tried Intel/Solaris, but not Linux. -- ...RickM... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
