Linux usage is tiny on the desktop, but the desktop seems to be shrinking rapidly in relevance, and the numbers for linux everywhere else are much higher than 1% of the market.
Other topic... when I was writing cobol I could screen print some logic and show it to the client. Try that with Lisp, C etc. Steve does have a certain point. Nobody is saying COBOL is a candidate for AGI languages (!) but at least the designers WANTED it to be readable and not arcane. Thet partly succeeded. Mike A On 10/15/14, Ben Goertzel via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/303/11943661-d9279dae > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- 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
