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Why Windows -- Not GNU/Linux -- is a Niche Platform

  • Subject: Why Windows -- Not GNU/Linux -- is a Niche Platform
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:34:39 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Open Source: Niche Markets, Linux and Microsoft

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| If you are a Linux protagonist who has been around as long as, or longer than, 
| I have, you have seen responses like these over and over as to why Linux 
| distributions will never go mainstream on the PC desktop:
| 
|     * âLinux will always remain a niche platform because it does not have a 
|     native release of Adobe (Photoshop / Creative Suite / etcetera)!â
|     * âLinux does not have Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office power users 
|     require Microsoft Office!â
|     * âThe web portal at (insert portal here) needs Internet Explorer. There 
|     is no native release of Internet Explorer for Linux, so no one will want 
|     to use Linux!â
|     * âProgram X does not have a Linux version or equivalent!â
|     * Or other claims along the same lines â
|
| [...]
| 
| To me this suggests that the Microsoft platform is the niche platform:
| 
|     * Do you âneedâ Adobe (Photoshop / Creative Suite / etcetera) for your 
|       job? Then you are a niche user.
|     * Do you âneedâ Microsoft Office because you are a âpower userâ? Then you 
|     are a niche user.
|     * Do you âneedâ access to an IE only web portal? Then you are a niche 
|       user.
|     * Do you âneedâ to run Program X on your PC? Then you are a niche user.
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http://blog.eracc.com/2011/10/03/open-source-niche-markets-linux-and-microsoft/
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