I can't remember where I was the 97% figure However, Linux dominates mobile, and has a clear majority of webservers as well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Servers_on_the_Internet -- Ben On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would you be surprised if a ragtag group of OSS developers made a better > OS > > than Microsoft, IBM or Apple -- one used to power 97% or so of the > Internet > > ? > > Actually the market share for Linux is 1.64%. > > http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0 > > And the total development effort is quite substantial, similar to > Windows. The difference is in how the work is funded. In the open > source model, information has negative value. You sell yourself by > giving away your work. > > I think a distributed AGI can be funded this way too. But only if > there is some compelling reason to use it before it is fully > developed. > > > I don't think an AGI has to pretend to be human ... > > Yes, we agree on that. Unless we are talking about applications like > uploading or identity theft. But once we solve the problem of modeling > human minds, it is a simple matter to program them to carry out their > predictions of your actions in real time. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
