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OSBC panel looks at the future of the OS
Mar. 27, 2008

The future of the operating system took center stage at the Open Source Business Conference here March 25, as a panel of vendor representatives debated the topic.

Dirk Hohndel, the chief Linux and open-source technologist at Intel, said the company was totally driven by what the market wanted.

"If customers say they only want Microsoft's operating systems, it's not our business to question that. Now, that is not what customers are saying; they want options and there are more and more of these. Choice is both good and bad," he said.

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