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| From | JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> |
| Subject | Re: Lloyd Parsons can't answer this. |
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| Date | 2015-08-24 13:19 -0500 |
On 2015-08-24, Tommy Troll <elkabong99@Itroll.org> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:49:01 -0400, A.M wrote: > >> On 2015-08-24 1:06 PM, Lloyd Parsons wrote: >>> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:05:14 -0400, A.M wrote: >>> >>>> On 2015-08-24 8:23 AM, Lloyd Parsons wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 08:07:58 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Nobody wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 7/29/2015 11:53 AM, Lloyd Parsons wrote: >>>>>>>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 09:09:20 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> [...] >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Since Linux on the desktop has been nearly dead for over 20 years, >>>>>>>> killing it off would be such a waste of time. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Please tell everyone what Linux was like over twenty years ago, and >>>>>>> what would have given it the ability to capture a large percentage of >>>>>>> desktop users at that time. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I don't expect any reasonable answer from you. I know you're just >>>>>>> parroting troll lines about Linux. >>>>>> >>>>>> I remember when the Flounder troll was sneering at Linux's "0.24%" >>>>>> "market" >>>>>> share. Now the "market" share is more like 1.6%, and that counts >>>>>> *only* >>>>>> distros that are sold *commercially*. >>>>>> >>>>>> Linux desktops may not be in every home, but Linux desktops are doing >>>>>> quite find in Microsoft's salted-earth territory. >>>>>> >>>>>> As for Lloyd, I gave up on that jerk long ago. I dislike people who >>>>>> simply want to dick with people all the time. Idiots. >>>>> >>>>> but you're perfectly willing to quote me from all those 'snipped, >>>>> unread' >>>>> posts. >>>> >>>> The worst part is that what Chris Ass Storm said is entirely wrong. For >>>> one thing, the market share is not at 1,6% but 1,5%. Secondly, whether >>>> the distribution is sold commercially or downloaded freely makes no >>>> difference for that marketshare as it is the _TOTAL_ market share of >>>> Linux on the desktop. >>>> >>>> It's amazing how these people never cease with their lying and >>>> fabrications. >>> >>> The 'sold' crap is just the new term they are using with the usual >>> nothing at all to back it up. Because on the desktop, who the hell >>> actually buys it? And if they want to, where would they do that? >>> >>> I haven't seen a commercially sold desktop Linux disk or download in >>> years. >> >> Not one computer store I've gone to since 1999 has stocked _anything_ >> which actually says "Linux" on it. The last thing I remember was a store >> called MicroBytes which had a boxed copy of RedHat Linux 5. After that, >> it seemed to become taboo to mention that name, probably because of how >> negative the consumer response to its experience was. Big box stores rarely stock ANY software anymore. People like to say that DVD is dead but it still gets waaaay more shelf space at places like Best Buy and places like Frys even. > > The now semi-defunct big box bookstores Barnes and Noble and the > completely out of business Borders used to try and sell boxed Linux > way back in the late 90's. It was usually in the marked down section > along with ancient versions of Chessmaster, various packaged > shareware and CD's with clip art on them. > > Associating yourself with Linux is never a good way to improve your > business. > Just ask Munich and Pesaro Italy how Linux and open source totally > screwed up their municipalities. ...sure, it was all Linux. Amazon, the Internet, and iBooks had nothing to do with it.
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Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-07-28 20:07 -0400
Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-07-29 08:44 -0400
Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-07-29 09:03 -0400
Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2015-07-28 08:57 +0100
Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-07-28 10:30 -0400
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Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-07-27 13:38 -0400
Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-07-27 14:28 -0400
Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-07-27 15:19 -0400
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