On 7/20/2009 5:36 AM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 09:31 +0500, gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> It's really weird. I already said that you have a gift for explaining, >> which means you're certainly not completely dumb. How come you can't >> understand the importance of market share for Linux? > > a. This is Linux, other than for the few for-sale distributions "market > share" is inappropriate terminology. > > b. As I've already pointed out, just because you measure success by the > percentage of users on different systems, doesn't mean others do, as > well. You're the one failing to understand things. > > Linux has been the success that it is, all these years, despite the low > numbers, as far as you're concerned. It continues to succeed, despite > the low numbers, because it does what its users want it to do. > > It'll never replace Windows, because it'd have to be Windows (warts and > all) to do that, and *we* don't want a Windows clone. There's no point > to that, we've already got Windows if we want those problems. > > Linux isn't going to magically vanish because the relative number of > users falls below some threshold. It'll go when there's insufficient > people involved to keep it going. > > Things like proprietary media formats will always be around, even if > Linux gets a huge /market share/, And open formats still have a place > even in a completely proprietary market. Well stated. +1 -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
