6 steps to make Linux popular (an Article)

[Russell McOrmond]

Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> http://saralk.newsvine.com/_news/2007/02/15/568686-6-steps-to-make-linux-popular

Summary: In order to make "Linux" popular, it must become Microsoft 
Windows, failings and all.


   I've seen many versions of this identical article over the last 
decade+, and none of them have really said anything useful.  While 
interface interoperability (human , API and file format) is useful to 
allow for easier migration  (Which requires software developer/vendor 
interest, but also legal reforms to patent and copyright law to disallow 
interface monopolies), everything else suggested is actually a 
disadvantage and not an advantage.

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