Edward Cawley wrote: > If 3% is for Linux, I hate to think what Mac is! > Ed There has always been that bias, the 3% is just a WAG in my opinion as it's impossible quantify based on distro sales and even downloads, bearing in mind that one copy acquired says nothing about the number of boxes it goes on. My copy os SuSE 10.1 has been installed on 8 boxes so far, a ninth is on 10.0. If they write for Mac OSX, then Linux should be pretty much a trivial exercise. Regards Sid.
> On Oct 31, 2006, at 5:17 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: > >> On 10/31/06, *Sid Boyce* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> Have you ever tried turning a cruise ship with an oar? >> Neither have I, but I have worked for corporations. Suggest Linux to >> most of them and you get the phone slammed in your ear - I could tell >> you of experiences, perhaps another time. I bet the mention of >> support >> for other OS's turns out to be Mac only. >> >> >> >> I'm a huge linux fan myself, and have it running on all but one of my >> machiines. But just to keep this conversation rooted in realty ... >> >> When I look at the web stats for the FlightGear project which is >> extremely linux and open-source friendly, I see that 97% of all >> visiters are running, guess what? Windows! Only 3% of the web site >> visitors are running Linux. >> >> Hmmm, if I was just playing the numbers, 3% seems like a pretty small >> minority. >> >> Now pretend you are a TV show (and not an open-source project) I >> suspect that would bias the numbers even *further* in the direction of >> Windows. >> >> So you are right to get indignant about them only support windows in >> their video streaming, but at the same time, it's not all that hard to >> see where they are coming from ... >> >> Curt. >> -- -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
