I think Linux is much more than 1%.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Antonio Olivares <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > --- On Tue, 7/21/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Ranter or evangelist? > > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." < > [email protected]> > > Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11:33 PM > > > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 08:08 > > +0500, [email protected] > > wrote: > > >> Excuse me for being rude > > > > > > No. > > > > > > Oh, and I'm middle-aged, and run a debt free > > business. Being doing so > > > for over twenty years. i.e. I live in the real > > world, and one that's > > > well managed. > > > > > > The one needing to get a clue, here, is you. You > > ONLY speak for > > > yourself, and opinions are NOT facts. > > > > I was just about to go to bed but this message kept > > haunting me. There's > > lots of truth in what you say here: why care about anything > > but the facts > > and be haunted by questions instead of facts? Sometimes I > > really wished I > > was like you... > > > > Microsoft has 90% of market share, Linux only 1% and people > > at Microsoft > > certainly are very glad. So, why should we be sad? Wouldn't > > this be giving > > Microsoft an edge in gladness? > > > > And if, tomorrow, Linux only has only .01% of the desktop > > market, would > > that be any reason to be sad? Of course not, since you and > > the codec geeks > > -- they'll undoubtedly be the last! -- will always hold the > > flag. So, > > you'll be glad not to be bothered by know-nothing like me > > and Microsoft... > > will they ever be glad! > > > > Once again, everybody will be glad. So why worry, be > > happy! > > > > Still, a last question keeps haunting me. No doubt, by now, > > since it's all > > well documented facts, you've read "From Microsoft Word to > > Microsoft > > World". In this document, Newman explains how, using its > > proprietary > > formats, Microsoft got rid of pretty much all competition. > > It brought > > every company to their knees, thn, bought and scrapped them > > one after the > > other. > > > > Of course, Microsoft can't play this game with Linux, since > > Linux uses... > > or tries to use open formats. Still, sometimes I wonder if, > > with all the > > money it has, Microsoft couldn't find a way to keep the cap > > on Linux. You > > know, keep it at an acceptable level of nuisance, say, 1% > > of market share > > after 18 years. > > > > Arrrgh! I'm afraid that's what I'll dream about tonight. > > What a pain I am, > > even to myself! > > > > -- > > > Micro$oft is losing out to google, Twitter, Facebook and others. In a last > ditch effort. Micro$oft is releasing code to linux. Check out this at > distrowatch. > > http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090720 > > I like comment 133. It sounds just about right. There are many nice > comments there. BTW, Redhat also signed a deal with them, are they really > falling off or are they the Borg that is portrayed in comment 133? > > Regards, > > Antonio > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- Regards, Michael Leung http://www.itblogs.info http://www.michaelleung.info
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