Keeping the Desktop Dream Alive: Q&A With Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin, Part 1

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"The thing people used to care about, and the reason they chose Windows, was because there was a huge number of applications available for the platform, so they had the inertia of having lots of installed users and that led to lots of applications users could use," said Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. "What users care about now from the applications perspective is the Internet."

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