On Sunday 27 August 2006 21:30, JD Fenech wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Good thing, too.  Windows Vista is Microsoft's last OS before they leave
> > the operating system market to focus on their other products, which makes
> > me wonder if Vista support is completely moot at this point.
> >
> >> Linux surpassed the number of Macs on the desktop in late 2004 at 2.8%
> >> of the installed base and by the end of this year there will be more
> >> than twice as many Linux desktop machines as Macs at about 6% of the
> >> installed base.  So we are already seeing a tremendous growth in the
> >> number of Linux users.  Linux has dominated the server market for some
> >> time now.
>
> So what fills in the vaccuum on the IBM PC/Intel Compatible OS Market? I
> sense that may be the time that Linux will really jump ahead, 

That seems likely.

> though 
> someone will probably try to pull a BillG and bowdlerize it to the point
> where it might be proprietaryish (I don't rightly know how they'd
> achieve this).

It won't work.  See also:  SCO v. IBM, SCO v. DaimlerChrysler, SCO v. Novell, 
SCO v. AutoZone, SCO v....  So far, they seem to be proving the GPL works 
better than anybody else.

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Paul Johnson
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