Stockholm Syndrome Stopping Seeing How Linux Has Won?

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Simon Phipps

Amazingly, the debate about when we will see the “year of the Linux desktop” is still active. Maybe it’s software Stockholm Syndrome making us all love our captor, but the focus on desktop applications, coupled with the idealistic expectation that Windows will be displaced, has led many to overlook or even dismiss the way  Linux actually has taken over the desktop.

We were expecting it to displace Windows; instead, it has displaced the Windows desktop application, powered the reinvention of the mobile market, and in the process done more for us all than the revolution we expected could ever have delivered.  Read about it on InfoWorld.

 

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