What's most fascinating to me is that members of the public have no clue that they're not using Windows. They're able to load up their Microsoft Word files using OpenOffice, and save them back to disk automatically in MS Word format. They surf the web, check email, do instant messaging, view YouTube videos, visit their Facebook page, learn touch typing skills and lots more. Our public library has been offering these Linux public stations for the past 3 years. People come up to me and ask, "What does Linux look like?" and I answer them with a straight face, "The computer you've been using for the past two hours is Linux." - Phil Shapiro
Source: http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2007/10/linux_not_ready.html
Google is hot right now. Microsoft circa 1992 hot....So what’s the secret? I think it’s open source management.
Google empowers its people to try things out, to put them "in beta." And it leaves them there even when they’re not pulling their financial weight, because someone else may come along with a Clue, and the cost of leaving a server running is a rounding error. By letting people pound on its ideas in public, in other words, Google saved a ton of money... - Dana Blankenhorn
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1533
Regardless of its modest market share in absolute terms, the fact that Linux more than doubled suggests it is growing at a collision course with the other OSes. If it were to maintain its current growth rate, it would be the dominant OS by the year 2014. - James Maguire in Datamation
Source: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3704431
...trying Linux -- especially if you boot it from a CD -- is a great way to find out what a lot of open-source adherents are so excited about.
And with prices starting as low as free, you certainly cannot complain about the price. - Larry Magid in the New York Times
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/technology/circuits/04basics.html