On Nov 26, 2007, at 1:01 PM, David Boatright wrote:
>> People don't want VCRs. They want to see movies, and will buy the
>> VCR that plays the movies they want to see.
>
> So Linux doesn't have as a large a user base because the software that
> people want is just not available on Linux.
That was certainly the case when people were still making choices.
Those days have been gone for about 15 years or so. Buying Windows
today is not a choice; it is a default.
>> And if they already have a collection of VHS tapes, it would cost
>> them a lot of $$ to switch to Beta, even if the VCR was free.
>
> Surely if it is that good people will take the free Betamax VCR and
> buy new movies for it and keep VHS for watching their old movies.
> Eventually VHS would disappear.
Of course not. Now they have two systems to learn; two systems to
maintain; two boxes to take up space.
However, with the advent of VM technology, more and more people are
using something other than Windows as their main system, with Windows
in a VM for when they must use it. But these are the technologically-
advanced users; the bulk of systems sold are to businesses and home
users, and these will continue to be Windows as default for many
years to come.
-- Ed Leafe
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