LXer: Proprietary software will kill PC in 30 years, conference told

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LXer: Proprietary software will kill PC in 30 years, conference told

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02-07-2007, 12:03 PM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,383 Rep:	LXer: Proprietary software will kill PC in 30 years, conference told Published at LXer: If proprietary software continues to dominate, within 10 years no one will be able to store any file and even view their own content without first paying a service provider to see it and the PC as we know it will be gone within 30 years. Those were just two of the predictions made by German Linux consultant Klaus Knopper, creator of the Knoppix live CD computer operating system, at the three-day Open Source conference, LinuxAsia 2007, in New Delhi. Read More...

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