Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Parsons Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.hacker,alt.privacy.anon-server ,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Microsoft Forces Windows 10 Downloads Onto Windows 7 And Windows 8 Date: 16 Sep 2015 22:18:31 GMT Lines: 89 Message-ID: References: <67c97ed368b8c4b82048776e82b80693@dizum.com> <320jva1lq9o081u2etqobbf5q57nofll9c@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 1ClQthdbJsupMoUzM2pNCgidovLmmWLXZbfGmH4SH+RvN8+4YS Cancel-Lock: sha1:soYSawt6iFnjgrLx4x8Wg4Qi2sQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.freeware:243014 alt.comp.os.windows-10:8210 alt.hacker:7836 comp.os.linux.advocacy:321178 On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:45:45 -0400, Caver1 wrote: > On 09/16/2015 05:40 PM, Lloyd Parsons wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:25:47 -0400, Caver1 wrote: >> >>> On 09/16/2015 04:17 PM, Lloyd Parsons wrote: >>>> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:13:14 -0500, chrisv wrote: >>>> >>>>> mike wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I never advocated fewer choices. >>>>> >>>>> "Desktop linux already has WAY too much CHOICE." - "mike" >>>>> >>>>>> (remainder snipped, unread) >>>>> >>>>> I know. You think that you know better than everyone else. If only >>>>> you were dictator, and could allocate resources, the world would be >>>>> better-off. You would eliminate "wasteful" and "redundant" work on >>>>> competing ideas on how to do things best. You would disallow the >>>>> offering of anything but one STANDARD Linux, for the good of us all. >>>>> >>>>> Maybe you should consider starting your own communist "utopia" >>>>> somewhere, comrad. >>>> >>>> Time after time, post after post, you demonstrate that you are happy >>>> with the hobbyist/developer open and free model for desktop linux. >>>> And I have no problem with that. It gathers a solid 1.5% of the >>>> market and is fringe enough to fill that tiniest of tech niches. >>>> >>>> But then don't complain when linux desktop goes nowhere in the >>>> commercial/ >>>> consumer world. That's because the things you believe important >>>> about linux desktop are exactly what prevents that from ever >>>> changing. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Linux has taken over some of the commercial world and is growing >>> rapidly in the rest. >> >> Let's correct that a bit. It has been taken in by some companies for >> specific purposes but very few have switched to linux on the desktop in >> total. > > No correction needed. > >>> As different gov'ts and businesses switch to Linux then the consumer >>> world will grow. >>> >> That's been the story for 20+ years now. No indication that it is more >> than a pipe dream. >> >> >>> http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software- companies/091515/ >> ubuntu-linux-based-open-source-os-runs-42-percent-dell-pc >>> >>> http://tinyurl.com/pr2d3bx >>> >>> India is switching over also. >> >> The story is nice, another 'this is the year of linux' that appear >> every year for almost 20 years now. When the dust settles this time >> next year, >> there will be another story similar to it. >> >> But the 1.5% of marketshare will remain the same. >> >> >> >> > Nobody said anything about a year. Just showing that Linux is growing in > large chunks. > Who care about market share. Most Linux distros aren't sold so are not > part of the "market" > By the way that is just two examples. Except for the fact that it isn't growing by even small chunks, you are absolutely correct. And I'd say give it 5 years and it might just make 1.55% at the rate it is growing now. -- Lloyd