<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Also see articles like "Microsoft Antitrust: “The Linux Threat on the<br>
Desktop” (2006) and Predatory Response,"<br>
<<a href="https://techrights.org/o/2009/01/22/microsoft-taskforce-vs-walmart-linux/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://techrights.org/o/2009/01/22/microsoft-taskforce-vs-walmart-linux/</a>>.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Someone should convince the Linux foundation to sell linux desktops online.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Linux foundation should also take libreoffice and other important open source linux software under its fold.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Basically, the Linux foundation should take the whole linux ecosystem under its fold.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One flaw that I found in linux desktops development is that the developers don't ask the companies as to what the companies need.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think that Google uses linux desktops a lot. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And, there are many companies/departments in companies that work exclusively in linux but their desktops are still Windows.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If linux desktop developers ask the companies as to what the companies want to start using linux desktop and then deliver that then the companies will start using linux desktops. And, linux desktops may get funding from them also.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The starting point may be Google. If linux desktop developers ask Google as to what more it wants from linux desktop and if those things are delivered then may be Google will give more funding.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is the flaw that I have observed - linux desktop developers don't ask companies what the companies want, the developers just go ahead and do what they want to do assuming that the companies will like what they do. But this is not the way to increase the usage of your product.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I had sent a similar email to some GNOME folks yesterday but I haven't received a reply.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have also joined Linux foundation and I will try to convince them.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But what is discouraging is that linux desktop developers themselves are not very interested in increasing the user base of linux desktops. And if someone tells them that they are doing something wrong then they get hurt.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I can change the whole scenario and make linux desktops popular and defeat Microsoft but I can't do it because I am not an important person in the linux world.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,</div><div dir="auto">Amit</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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