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The more I talk with Mark, the more I think he's a very, very smart person. He recognizes that Ubuntu needs to be more appealing on the desktop than the Mac to generate user adoption, but that's not really where his attention is focused, so far as I can tell. He's thinking bigger than desktop bits.
He's thinking of cloud-plus-desktop bits. And this, my friends, is why Mark may end up winning the "desktop" war.
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Now start to think about what Ubuntu could do with a firm position on the desktop, or what Google could do if it wanted to "backfill" its desktop gap with Ubuntu (or its own homegrown version of Linux). Would you buy a Google Desktop/operating system? Of course you would. You'd be thinking of the Google applications while getting the benefit of a Google home base in the desktop bits, including the operating system.
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Suddenly creating a third leading Linux distribution doesn't seem so crazy. It's only crazy if Mark were content to stymie his imagination by replicating what Novell and Red Hat have already done well. He's not. He's thinking bigger. There's risk in thinking big, but there's also a potentially huge reward.
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