[mdlug] Linux push an economic phenomanon?

[Michael Corral]

2011-01-20, Monsieur Art Dries a ecrit:
> I'm trying 2 reason out how this grassroots effort
              ^

y r u using lolspeak?

> Could it be that a slow economy, increasing cost of propriatary
> software, and an abundance of cheap hardware made it an obvious
> choice? Or is there a less cynical reason?

I'd say it's a combination of economic and reliability/security reasons.
It's dawned on a lot of people that the MS lock-in isn't worth it, for a
lot of reasons. But proprietary UNIX has also lost some ground, mostly
for economic reasons, which Linux has picked up.

Michael