Linux needs more great weeks

Sanctions against Microsoft and market momentum won't guarantee the Windows rival's future on desktop PCs

03/27/04 MATTHEW FORDAHL

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- It might have seemed to be the best possible week for boosters of the Linux open-source operating system. As their nemesis, Microsoft, was sanctioned by the European Commission for anticompetitive trespasses, computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. gave Linux a new vote of confidence, and the largest Linux distributor posted strong financial results.

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