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[Les Mikesell]

Scott van Looy wrote:
> Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:
> 
>> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>
>>>> Most of my closed source drivers are used with closed source OS's and
>>>> are simply not an issue.
>>>
>>> I assumed, since you are writing to a Fedora newsgroup/mailing list,
>>> that you were talking about using closed drivers under Fedora.
>>>
>>> If you are talking about Windows drivers under Windows OS
>>> I don't really see the relevance.
>>
>> The relevance is that the Linux faithful like to regurgitate the lines 
>> about how stable interfaces and binary drivers can't work when in fact 
>> they work just fine and the majority of the world runs on them taking 
>> advantage of the vendor's expertise and desire for a competitive 
>> advantage.  Just a reality check...
> 
> They do?

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp puts Linux at 3%. 
Somewhere I thought I saw that current sales were around 8% Mac compared 
to the overall 3.8% though.

> Most people here are trying to explain FOSS to you...

The issue has nothing to do with open source, which in general co-exists 
nicely with proprietary software.

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