On Tuesday 01 March 2005 13:31, Ian Lynch wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 09:57, Claus Agerskov wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Christian Einfeldt wrote: > > > ... about when the digital tipping point will arrive, will > > > Linux hit 51% on the desktop, when, etc. > > > > The tipping point is not when Linux hit 51%.
This is exactly the kind of discussion that I am trying to provoke with my contest! I'd love to have you guys do a little audio clip and email it to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Please don't send any audio clips to my earthlink account, because it chokes easily, and only holds 10 MB max! Back in 1996, that was a lot, but now.... Ian, you could just go into Chris and Ben's studio and rant a little bit, if you would like! > > > > The tipping point must be when the Linux marketshare in users > > are as large or larger as/than the largest which right now is > > Microsoft Windows. > > The curve is non-linear so the tipping point does not necessarily > have to be at some 50% mark. Its where acceleration of growth > gets rapid and uncontrollable. You could have a gradual erosion > over many years with 100% change and no particular tipping point. > We probably won't be able to decide when the tipping point > happened until afterwards. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
