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Linux: a viable alternative or desert mirage?

Linux: a viable alternative or desert mirage? You would have to be practicing librarianship on a desert island not to know at least a few colleagues who hate Microsoft. In 1991 a glimmer of hope, which has since become a steady light, began to shine for many who take, if not technical then at least ideological exception to Microsoft. That light, called Linux, is now all the rage in computer and technical-oriented publications. Unhappily, Linux's greaest strength is also its greatest weakness. It will fail precisely because it does not have the one characteristic that causes so many to hate Microsoft Windows: a huge corporation backing it up. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Library Hi Tech Emerald Publishing

Linux: a viable alternative or desert mirage?

Scott McLaren
Library Hi Tech , Volume 18 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2000
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Emerald Publishing
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Copyright © 2000 MCB UP Ltd. All rights reserved.
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0737-8831
DOI
10.1108/07378830010314500
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Abstract

You would have to be practicing librarianship on a desert island not to know at least a few colleagues who hate Microsoft. In 1991 a glimmer of hope, which has since become a steady light, began to shine for many who take, if not technical then at least ideological exception to Microsoft. That light, called Linux, is now all the rage in computer and technical-oriented publications. Unhappily, Linux's greaest strength is also its greatest weakness. It will fail precisely because it does not have the one characteristic that causes so many to hate Microsoft Windows: a huge corporation backing it up.

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Library Hi Tech – Emerald Publishing

Published: Mar 1, 2000

Keywords: Operating systems; Computer languages

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