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Posted by: 1000193068 (Sunday 5 August 2007, 8:12 PM)

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Title should read...

"Windows' *desktop* dominance stifles demand for Linux *desktop*" - there's a distinct difference.

But things change. Like state hegemonies, commercial monopolies come and go.

I had the opportunity to talk to a friend of mine this morning whose been with Anderson/Accenture for 10 years. Accenture is one of the few large companies migrating all their desktops to Vista (note: Steve Ballmar is on their board).

Anyhow, he admitted understanding the Microsoft paradigm from a business perspective and was comfortable with it. But I then told him about the Mass. State's recent u-turn on ODF in preference for OpenXML etc. and his immediate reaction was "That's unsustainable - no matter how big you are, if you resort to buying your own business, you're going out of business."

I would go further and suggest that if your in the protection racket business (see Linspire, Novell Suse, Xandros et al.) the writing is clearly on the wall.

It will unravel. It's inevitable.

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