On Monday 30 August 2004 20:49, JoeHill wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:18:21 -0500 > > Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: > > > "A non-free program is a predatory social system that > > > keeps people in a state of domination and division, and > > > uses the spoils to dominate more. It may seem like a > > > profitable option to become one of the emperor's > > > lieutenants, but ultimately the ethical thing to do is to > > > resist the system and put an end to it." > > > > You seem to have forgotten the bankers, lawyers, indian > > chiefs, accountants, small business, big business, > > factories, labs, hospitals, & etc. If you think millions of > > business concerns are paying $1,500 per month and up for > > software use for nothing, you maybe ought to rethink. The > > business seems to be doing well. > > Didn't say they were dead, Hoyt, said they were *dying*. > > The facts speak for themselves: > > "An Evans Data survey published in November 2001 found that > 48.1% of international developers and 39.6% of North Americans > plan to target most of their applications to GNU/Linux. In > October 2002, they found that 59% of developers expect to > write Linux applications in the next year. The November 2001 > edition of the Evans Data International Developer Survey > Series reported on in-depth interviews with over 400 > developers representing over 70 countries, and found that when > asked which OS they plan to target with most of their > applications next year, 48.1% of international developers and > 39.6% of North Americans stated that they plan to target most > of their applications to GNU/Linux. This is surprising since > only a year earlier less than a third of the international > development community was writing GNU/Linux applications. The > survey also found that 37.8% of the international development > community and 33.7% of North American developers have already > written applications for GNU/Linux, and that over half of > those surveyed have enough confidence in GNU/Linux to use it > for mission-critical applications. > > Evans Data conducted a survey in October 2002. In this survey, > they reported ___Linux continues to expand its user base. 59% > of survey respondents expect to write Linux applications in > the next year.___ > An Evans Data survey made public in February 2004 found that > 1.1 million developers in North America were working on OSS/FS > projects. Evans Data___s North American Developer Population > Study examined the number of software developers using various > approaches. It found that more than 1.1 million developers in > North America were spending at least some of their time > working on Open Source development projects. That___s an > extraordinarily large number of people, and it doesn___t even > account for developers in other countries. Many only develop > part-time, but that many people can develop a lot of software, > and having a large number of people increases the likelihood > of helpful insights and innovations in various OSS/FS > projects. > > A Japanese survey found widespread use and support for > GNU/Linux; overall use of GNU/Linux jumped from 35.5% in 2001 > to 64.3% in 2002 of Japanese corporations, and GNU/Linux was > the most popular platform for small projects. The book Linux > White Paper 2003 (published by Impress Corporation) surveys > the use of GNU/Linux in Japan (it is an update to an earlier > book, ___Linux White Paper 2001-2002___). This is written in > Japanese; here is a brief summary of its contents. > > "The survey has two parts, user and vendor. In ___Part I : > User enterprise___, they surveyed 729 enterprises that use > servers. In ___Part II : Vendor enterprise___, they surveyed > 276 vendor enterprises who supply server computers, including > system integrators, software developers, IT service suppliers, > and hardware resellers. The most interesting results are those > that discuss the use of Linux servers in user enterprises, the > support of Linux servers by vendors, and Linux server adoption > in system integration projects." > > Link: > > http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html I offer the gaming industry, there are now servers and other programs that allow games to run under linux, but you still have to buy the game. I cant expect that an accounting program that runs on Texas Instrument OS and costs $1500 per month will do any different. This is also true of UNIX and other OS's such as IBM can you imagine IBM loseing business to linux. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.org
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