According to the same source, OS X has<div>about 6% the desktop market. Now that's</div><div>based on BSD, which would transparent to</div><div>most users. So this suggests that Linux</div><div>as much as anything lacks a marketing </div>
<div>vehicle, and both Linux and OS X never</div><div>got the $billions of training dollars from</div><div>corporations that windoz got. And of course</div><div>people stay with what they know, so now</div><div>breaking in to the windoz monopoly will be</div>
<div>very tough.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Bob Kline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:30 PM, John-Thomas Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org" target="_blank">jtr@jrichards.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 08:38:42AM -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote: <br></div>
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Regarding Linux on the desktop, that arrived (for me) in 1997. I used<br>
to care whether Linux would take over Microsoft's monopoly position<br>
until I realized that I don't run Windows and haven't since 1997 (except<br>
when working for organizations that required me to use their PCs but not<br>
on my personal computer). What do I care which OS<br>
[insert-business-name] provides for its employees? I don't work there.<br>
Debian with OpenBox, vim, Kile, mutt, evolution, Firefox, and a few<br>
others is all *I* need to be productive.<br>
--<br>
john-thomas<br>
------ <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>An OS needs a certain volume before </div><div>it gets commercial support, in the way</div><div>of drivers and package support. I suspect</div><div>that the alleged small number of Linux users</div>
<div>is balanced by the fact that many of them</div><div>are IT professionals, and the stated growth</div><div>in non-desktop areas. </div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div> -- Bob</div><div> </div></font></div>
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