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. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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