On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 11:32 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Scott van Looy wrote: > > Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly: > > > >> Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> > >>>> Most of my closed source drivers are used with closed source OS's and > >>>> are simply not an issue. > >>> > >>> I assumed, since you are writing to a Fedora newsgroup/mailing list, > >>> that you were talking about using closed drivers under Fedora. > >>> > >>> If you are talking about Windows drivers under Windows OS > >>> I don't really see the relevance. > >> > >> The relevance is that the Linux faithful like to regurgitate the lines > >> about how stable interfaces and binary drivers can't work when in fact > >> they work just fine and the majority of the world runs on them taking > >> advantage of the vendor's expertise and desire for a competitive > >> advantage. Just a reality check... > > > > They do? > > http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp puts Linux at 3%. > Somewhere I thought I saw that current sales were around 8% Mac compared > to the overall 3.8% though. ---- those numbers just don't look right. I refuse to believe that Win98 is and has been under 1% and Vista is so small. As for Macintosh sales being 8%, I haven't seen any such report...that would be a significant increase. Craig
