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| From | William Poaster <wp@induh-vidual.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers |
| Date | 2011-04-24 23:06 +0100 |
| Organization | Llareggub |
| Message-ID | <tfje88-vf7.ln1@linuxnetwork.alpha.org> (permalink) |
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7 wrote:
> William Poaster wrote:
>
>> RonB wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:20:55 +0000, RonB wrote:
>>>
>>>> Same old pipe dream for the WinTrolls. They think of "Desktop Linux" as
>>>> a single "product" that has to please stockholders quarter by quarter.
>>>> Unfortunately, for them, Linux distributions are put together by a whole
>>>> lot of volunteers who aren't about to quit releasing new versions of
>>>> their distributions just because some toady for Microsoft writes a
>>>> negative article or two. There's nobody for Gates to buy out or threaten
>>>> into extinction.
>>>>
>>>> Learn to live it, WinTrolls, Desktop Linux isn't going anywhere.
>>>> Meanwhile embedded Linux, Linux on servers and mobile Linux are eating
>>>> Microsoft's lunch. You'll have to learn to live with that also.
>>>
>>> And, again, if Desktop Linux is so "inconsequential" why do WinTrolls
>>> rail on about it 24/7 in a Linux Advocacy Newsgroup?
>>
>> Indeed, & why was M$ so worried about "linux having only 1% market
>> share" that they hired an Open Source Desktop Strategy Czar ("a strong
>> team member to lead Microsoft’s global desktop competitive strategy as
>> it relates to open source competitors.”)
>> Are the wintrolls so busy chanting their "1%" mantra (in the vain hope
>> that it's true) that they don't read the news?
>
>
> The simplest of all reason is the most plausible.
>
> They just don't know how to count Linux.
>
> If they did, then they would be able to put that into
> their SEC filing.
In their SEC filing M$ (guess)estimates Linux users at 10-12% & possibly
as much as 14%, & warns that this can affect their business & drop in
revenue.
> So what they can't count hurts them.
> It counts against them as disappearing sales.
>
> Not a bright future there for windummies no matter
> how you look at it because their sales are dwindling despite
> boasting meaningless market share figures figures.
>
> All your desktops belong to us says Linux and
> micohsaftees turn that around and say look at market share.
> Quoting market share to browser share are meaningless if they
> are not measuring how many users actually sat in front of computers using
> a given OS.
>
> It should be physical PC desktop usage share which I reckon is at least 7%
> globally for Linux. Some sort of name must be given to this share so
> that everyone can agree they are measuring the same thing and how
> they came to measure it.
> 7% puts it past the magic 7% threshold for declaring Linux as mainstream
> which I reckon where its at today.
--
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