____/ AHappyCamper on Tuesday 25 December 2007 15:38 : \____
> DFS wrote:
>> Kier wrote:
>>
>>> How can someone 'freeload' a thing which is created to be given away
>>> freely? You still have no grasp of what FOSS is about, even after
>>> years of trolling in COLA.
>>
>> Noun. freeloader - someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others
>>
>>
>> An April 2007 survey of 27000+ openSUSE desktop users
>>
http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/6/6c/Opensuse_survey_102_data_final.pdf
>> found
>>
>> * 78% download it for free
>> * 85% do nothing but use the software (no development or contributions or
>> bug reports)
>>
>> Which means 0.78 * 0.85 = 66% are total cheap-ass freeloaders who pay
>> nothing and give nothing back. And there's no reason to think that figure
>> doesn't apply to the entire Linux community.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Funny, those "Freeloaders" have Microsoft executives so worried that
> they cause Linux to be named as the most competitive group in the SEC
> filings.
>
> The happy news is that Microsoft Corporation has the true stats on
> usage, and it was attested in Courts of Law in 2005, as being 17%, with
> a growth factor of about 3% per annum, until Vista, at which time it
> jumped to 5%.
>
> That 5% Linux growth out of the total 1 billion on the internet, is
> approximately 50 million new users per year. We welcome them all.
>
> Holland has become the 43rd nation to mandate by law that the government
> use GNU/Linux and FOSS.
>
> They may take the free copies, that is what GNU is all about.
>
> Simply using GNU/Linux contributes, because the huge user base has new
> money to spend in the market, and hardware makers, system OEMs, game
> developers, all market to us prducts which comply to international
> standards, due to the economic pressures involved.
>
> When we go to purchase computers, hardware, software, we expect to
> purchase items packaged with Tux prominently displayed on the front.
>
> Sandisk is doing that, now. Look at the sales jump in their financials,
> when they began.
>
> Just like the trolls on this board, everyone has freedom to be, to
> choose, and to enjoy. The rest of us may ignore them as we choose.
>
> Free choice is the mandate.
...to mandate Linux.
Last week:
U.S. Department of Defense
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| This action provides for advanced cockpit one production effort includes
| production and integration of Linux hardware for Predator/Reaper ground
| control stations. At this time all funds have been obligated. HQ AFMC,
| Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is the contracting activity
| (F8620-05-G-3028-Order 0025).
|
| McDonnell Douglas Corp., of Saint Louis, Mo., is being awarded a contract
| modification for $14,759,087.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=3673
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