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  3. February 2002

RE: Proprietary era is over, IBM exec to say

Not sure who the "consensus" is, but evidently there's already a
downloadable version.  Here's a screen shot:

http://net2.com/lindows/launch.htm

The only problem is that it costs $99 to get the sneak preview.  That's a
little arrogant, even for me <grin>.

Joe


> From: Adam Lang
>
> Yeah, the current consensus is that this is going to be vaporware.
>
> From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
>
> > Just a little note on the MS/Windows stranglehold.  I haven't
> had a chance
> > to chcek this out, but it may be an interesting answer to the issue that
> > Linux doesn't have a friendly GUI:
> >
> > www.lindows.com
> >
> > Joe

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