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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Brock McNuggets   
   Re: 5 Linux Desktop Environments That Ma   
   27 Nov 25 21:23:01   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On 27 Nov 2025 18:26:51 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
      
   > On Nov 27, 2025 at 1:05:05 AM MST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" wrote   
   > <10g90nh$16s76$2@dont-email.me>:   
   >   
   >> Wonder why they needed to bring in actual Linux, then.   
   >   
   > It is open source and they can run it in a VM. Why not?   
      
   Because it is legitimizing the competition. Market leaders normally ignore   
   the competition, as I explained before. But Linux has grown too big to   
   ignore. Customer demand is seeing to that.   
      
   > And why do you think Linux brings in things from Windows and macOS?   
      
   It did that in the early days. Notice the copying is going the other way,   
   now?   
      
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