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Why I Use Linux: Bart’s Story
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| I have even convinced 4 co-workers that were fed up with all the viruses and
| problems into switching and once I got them installed and set up, they just
| love their new virus free machines. I agree with you 100% that Linux is ready
| for the desktop but Microsoft has a huge advantage that 95% of the computers
| sold come with Windows by default and that is hard to battle. We will just
| have to keep chipping away 1 new user at a time.
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http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=534
Recent:
Is The U.S. Self Importance Clouding Our Judgement of Software?
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| In a piece about the market share of Ubuntu outside the United States,
| Christopher Dawson writes about the innovation that is going on using Linux
| outside our borders. Since his pieces tend to highlight education, I
| sometimes discount what he says as being from a too narrow viewpoint, but
| after reflection, and some other digging, I see that it is perhaps the rest
| of us that are incorrect in our world vision.
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http://www.lockergnome.com/theoracle/2009/06/20/is-the-us-self-importance-clouding-our-judgement-of-software/
Lies, Damn Lies and Linux Market Share Statistics
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| "The numbers from NetApplications are clearly unrepresentative of reality,"
| blogger Robert Pogson told LinuxInsider. "Around 2003/4, IDC determined by
| survey that GNU/Linux was ahead of Mac OS at about 3 percent. Since then
| GNU/Linux has had growth numbers from 20 to 50 percent in various places.
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| "That would put GNU/Linux at 7 to 9 percent," he asserted.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/67031.html?wlc=1242052796&wlc=1242058748
GreyGeek - Subject: Ah, I see that NetApplications primary
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| usiness model is rebranding Windows executables and selling them to
| unsuspecting rubes.
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| A year ago Matt Assay said it was at 2.02%
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| ZDNet reported on Feb 24th, 2004 that the 2003 Linux desktop market share hit
| 3.2% and expected it to hit 6% by 2007.
| http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=5334
| In 2005 they reported that the 2004 saw the Linux desktop at 4%.
| I believe that the all the ZDNet figures were spot on. If anything, the Linux
| desktop market share has continued to increase and is probably currently at
| 8-10% and rising. Dell and the other PC OEMs wouldn't have invested in
| selling Linux pre-installed if it appealed only to less than 1% of the
| desktop market.
|
| It is quite obvious that NetApplications latest "report" is merely
| Microsoft's continuing attempt to control the news about Linux's success in
| replacing Windows on the desktop. It's not working... No one whith half an
| ounce of brain would take the bait on a "free" Win7 (a dumbed down version
| that can run only 3 apps at a time) that will deactivate after one year
| unless the user PAYS Microsoft to activate it. Win7 is NOT free.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-05-05-007-35-OS-MR-0000
Related:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that. Perhaps Google on that layer, although frankly speaking,
| most of what we have there is upside. We're small and they're big. (With)
| most things, we're big and the other guy is small, so we have more to lose
| than gain. In this case, we have more to gain than to lose with Google.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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