For people like me - then a freelance CIO-for-hire who was helping small businesses connect their computers to each other and the internet - it meant that increasingly, we made CEOs swap their Powerbooks for Thinkpads and designers swap their PowerPCs for Dells with beefy graphics cards, moving the whole business to PC/Windows.
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Cory Doctorow
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