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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
Nat Friedman
So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.
Miguel de Icaza
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
Miguel de Icaza
Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.
Stewart Alsop
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
Miguel de Icaza
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
Nat Friedman 
60% of people like this quote
So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.
Miguel de Icaza
53% of people like this quote
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
Miguel de Icaza
53% of people like this quote
Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.
Stewart Alsop
53% of people like this quote
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
Miguel de Icaza
53% of people like this quote
We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
Miguel de Icaza
48% of people like this quote
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
Ted Nelson
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Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing.
Stanley Schmidt
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Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
Larry Ellison
46% of people like this quote
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