[GRLUG] Linux use

[Bob Kline]

According to the same source, OS X has
about 6% the desktop market.  Now that's
based on BSD, which would transparent to
most users.  So this suggests that Linux
as much as anything lacks a marketing
vehicle, and both Linux and OS X never
got the $billions of training dollars from
corporations that windoz got.  And of course
people stay with what they know, so now
breaking in to the windoz monopoly will be
very tough.

    -- Bob


On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:30 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 08:38:42AM -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
>>
>> Regarding Linux on the desktop, that arrived (for me) in 1997.  I used
>> to care whether Linux would take over Microsoft's monopoly position
>> until I realized that I don't run Windows and haven't since 1997 (except
>> when working for organizations that required me to use their PCs but not
>> on my personal computer).  What do I care which OS
>> [insert-business-name] provides for its employees?  I don't work there.
>> Debian with OpenBox, vim, Kile, mutt, evolution, Firefox, and a few
>> others is all *I* need to be productive.
>> --
>> john-thomas
>> ------
>>
>
> An OS needs a certain volume before
> it gets commercial support, in the way
> of drivers and package support.  I suspect
> that the alleged small number of Linux users
> is balanced by the fact that many of them
> are IT professionals, and the stated growth
> in non-desktop areas.
>
>    -- Bob
>
>

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