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.

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