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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/
In a recent presentation, Ballmer showed that Linux market share (on the
desktop) is greater than Apple's.
Appler hardly exists in less developed countries.
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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