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Re: [LUG] silicon.com - Why The Linux Desktop Dream Is Over

 

Ah i get what you mean by this,  Kind of,  

Paul

>On Tuesday 14 November 2006 11:56, paul sutton wrote:
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>>why would this mean linux desktop dream over,    it seems as it runs
>>Linux it could be the start of something proof Linux works,  proof that
>>Linux can hackit in the non technie world,  and proof Linux is mature
>>enough to be used,
>>
>>If this works,  (I have seen similar offers before),  then it's up to
>>the OSS community to jump on this and promote Linux and use with
>>openoffice and other software.
>>    
>>
>I think one of the points that was being made was that office, of whichever 
>sort, is in fact dead. The return of client/server will allow companies to 
>regain control of their data. People are at long last realising that the data 
>is the important thing and not how pointlessly fancy the formatting is.
>
>Tom te tom te tom
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