Interesting insight about Linux on the desktop from a post by Ray Ozzie:
"We eventually gave up: nobody gave a hoot about Linux on the desktop"
I can relate to this in the days of the browser wars. It was no different. You could blow your brains out trying to develop web apps that would work just as well in Netscape as IE while blowing your budget for an extremely small market. Or, as I would like to do, you could ignore Netscape, get to market a lot sooner, have much less headaches and not worry about that 1% or less of the market. Anyone developing serious applications with serious budgets and timeframes will understand this.
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