Kevin La Rue is vice president of marketing for Linspire, a desktop Linux company. A self-styled start-up junkie and veteran of the consumer software industry for nearly two decades, Kevin has finally found a place that feels just right. This new column seeks
to provide insights and observations on the evolving world of Linux on the desktop.
Lately, I've been feeling
a little nostalgic about
what I call the 'golden
age' of consumer software
innovation in the late
'80s and early '90s. Back
then I was cutting my
teeth at a medium-sized
Mac software publisher
called Silicon Beach
Software that had a few
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