Subj : Re: Which Linux for a beginning desktop?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Trent Buck
Date : Mon Feb 28 2005 09:20 pm

Spake Mxsmanic:
> > There isn't a monopoly any more.  We've won.  Microsoft's business model
> > can't cope with Open Source; it's only a matter of time until they run
> > out of capital.  The database vendors are on our side.  Commodity
> > hardware manufacturers aren't, but Apple has enough weight to get a
> > subset of hardware supported.  Big business still sees Linux as a
> > bargaining chip when negotiating deals with Microsoft et al, but
> > progressive thinkers in e.g. Extramadura and Brazil have rolled out
> > *massive* deployments -- kids are GROWING UP with Linux instead of
> > Windows now.  We've won.
> 
> Right now, only 0.1 % of visitors to my site are running Linux.  I
> wouldn't exactly call it a stampede.

What makes you think that YOUR website is representative of the global
install count?  For a start, it's ignoring all the servers that don't
run web browsers.

-- 
Trent Buck, Student Errant
Technically, I can go and break the fingers of a sysadmin of any
operating system and get the root password. This doesn't make it a
localhost of remote attack.  -- Artur Grabowski

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