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____/ Mark Kent on Friday 15 Jan 2010 18:57 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> On Pi, Paper Penguins and FOSS' Regal Potential
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>>| "M$ is already beginning to compete on price
>>| with the netbooks and XP," he told
>>| LinuxInsider. "In another year or two they
>>| will be competing on price for any PC, and
>>| their prices and share of units sold will be
>>| drastically reduced."
>>|
>>| The share of GNU/Linux reached the tipping
>>| point in 2009, Pogson asserted.
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>>| "The avalanche has started to move slowly down
>>| the mountain, and it will pick up speed by the
>>| end of 2010 with thin clients and
>>| netbooks/smartbooks taking over the
>>| landscape," he predicted. "M$ has made a
>>| billion dollars a quarter less than is their
>>| 'natural right of a monopolist' in the client
>>| lately. Let us watch that continue as
>>| GNU/Linux grows share."
>> `----
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>> http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/On-Pi-Paper-Penguins-and-FOSS-Regal-Potential-69101.html
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> I'm pretty sure we were saying during 2008 that 2009 and netbooks were
> going to be the tipping point for the user-terminal space (my mobility
> version of "desktop"). Whilst MS have done a fine job of keeping Linux
> out of North American markets, they've not been so successful, and I
> recall the overall global market, even with all that manipulation, is
> only 68% or thereabouts with the ancient versions of windows which get
> squeezed onto netbooks for the "treacly windows experience".
ABI says this share will increase because of ARM. CES 2010 was /filled/ with
Linux/ARM. The press pointed this out (I posted some links here).
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