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. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
