“People are always looking for the be-all-end-all super perfect Linux. It will never happen until Microsoft does Linux. Oops. Did I say that?”

PC Magazine, "Inside Track", (26 June 2007), p. 1
2000s

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US journalist and radio broadcaster 1952

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