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<p>If you want to see desktop Linux finally get some traction with
the unwashed public, Mark Shuttleworth is more likely to be the
guy who’ll make that happen than anyone who’s come along so far.
He’s a capitalist and for better or worse this is a capitalist
world. He knows that nothing big is going to get done on this
market oriented planet without the art of the deal and some
hustle. He also understands something about fit and finish, which
was always lacking in desktop Linux until he came along.</p>
<p>For too long, we’ve been sitting around wringing our hands,
sometimes proclaiming this to finally be the year of the Linux
desktop without doing anything to make it happen and sometimes
bemoaning the fact that the world still hasn’t discovered Linux as
the secret to computing happiness. The thing is, the world never
knows anything about secrets until they’re not secret anymore.
We’ve been wanting Linux to just “catch on,” while we’ve been
blaming the OEMs for not automatically pushing our home grown
geek-centric distros with the same elan they put behind their
bread and butter Windows.</p>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fossforce.com/2013/08/why-mark-shuttleworth-is-important-to-desktop-linux/">http://fossforce.com/2013/08/why-mark-shuttleworth-is-important-to-desktop-linux/</a><br>
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Trusting Obama With Border Security Is Like Trusting
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