On Sun January 20 2008 3:06 am, Philippe Landau wrote: > Dave Barton wrote: > > From: Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> You are tenacious, Dave, great :-) > > > > Some may say tenacious, others would say that I am too stupid to know > > when to give up. ;) > > You wanted to but were kind enough to honour the efforts of list members > :-) > > >> Still no joy with Lilo ? > > > > Did give LiLo a shot, but the situation is even worse. On boot I get > > half a screen full of 01s and then total lockup, requiring a hardware > > reset. Thanks for trying to help, but I am sad to say Microsoft has won > > this box. > > Did anyone ever attempt to make a systematic survey > of reasons why Linux remains such a small player ? > Of course corruption on a massive scale is involved > in selling Windows to governments and corporations. > But why is the percentage of surfers using Linux so small ? > Is it mainly because of the games or are the shortcomings > of Linux an important factor and which ones most ? > > Kind regards Philippe
I suspect that many might use it as I do, for all net and surfing time, some personal apps, eg gnucash. Still have to keep a copy of Win around as I coach swim teams and the software written to manage my team, keep times, run meets, manage financials, etc, all run only on Win. Could call it a niche market and would be accurate, but too small a market I would think for a programmer to expect to get reimbursed for writing and maintaining a linux version or adapting from win to lin. My guess is that there are 100's, 1000's of similar stories of other apps that only run on win, too limited to entice a programmer and, eg, the number of swim coaches using lin is too small to force the swim program company to port the software to us, and no reason still why they should since users can still get and use win. Same goes for any number of other "little" apps, my new GPS enabled and scheduler sync-able phone comes to mind. Sync only to outlook and lotus. Bummer. Would love to be able to sync jpilot with it. And on and on. So I don't see one big reason for linus still being a small player, but rather lots of little ones. Just my $.02 Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
