Ranter or evangelist?

[Michael Leung]

I think Linux is much more than 1%.



On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031 at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> --- On Tue, 7/21/09, gilpel at altern.org <gilpel at altern.org> wrote:
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> > From: gilpel at altern.org <gilpel at altern.org>
> > Subject: Re: Ranter or evangelist?
> > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <
> fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11:33 PM
> > > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 08:08
> > +0500, gilpel at altern.org
> > wrote:
> > >> Excuse me for being rude
> > >
> > > No.
> > >
> > > Oh, and I'm middle-aged, and run a debt free
> > business.  Being doing so
> > > for over twenty years.  i.e. I live in the real
> > world, and one that's
> > > well managed.
> > >
> > > The one needing to get a clue, here, is you.  You
> > ONLY speak for
> > > yourself, and opinions are NOT facts.
> >
> > I was just about to go to bed but this message kept
> > haunting me. There's
> > lots of truth in what you say here: why care about anything
> > but the facts
> > and be haunted by questions instead of facts? Sometimes I
> > really wished I
> > was like you...
> >
> > Microsoft has 90% of market share, Linux only 1% and people
> > at Microsoft
> > certainly are very glad. So, why should we be sad? Wouldn't
> > this be giving
> > Microsoft an edge in gladness?
> >
> > And if, tomorrow, Linux only has only .01% of the desktop
> > market, would
> > that be any reason to be sad? Of course not, since you and
> > the codec geeks
> > -- they'll undoubtedly be the last! -- will always hold the
> > flag. So,
> > you'll be glad not to be bothered by know-nothing like me
> > and Microsoft...
> > will they ever be glad!
> >
> > Once again, everybody will be glad. So why worry, be
> > happy!
> >
> > Still, a last question keeps haunting me. No doubt, by now,
> > since it's all
> > well documented facts, you've read "From Microsoft Word to
> > Microsoft
> > World". In this document, Newman explains how, using its
> > proprietary
> > formats, Microsoft got rid of pretty much all competition.
> > It brought
> > every company to their knees, thn, bought and scrapped them
> > one after the
> > other.
> >
> > Of course, Microsoft can't play this game with Linux, since
> > Linux uses...
> > or tries to use open formats. Still, sometimes I wonder if,
> > with all the
> > money it has, Microsoft couldn't find a way to keep the cap
> > on Linux. You
> > know, keep it at an acceptable level of nuisance, say, 1%
> > of market share
> > after 18 years.
> >
> > Arrrgh! I'm afraid that's what I'll dream about tonight.
> > What a pain I am,
> > even to myself!
> >
> > --
>
>
> Micro$oft is losing out to google, Twitter, Facebook and others.  In a last
> ditch effort.  Micro$oft is releasing code to linux.  Check out this at
> distrowatch.
>
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090720
>
> I like comment 133.  It sounds just about right.  There are many nice
> comments there.  BTW, Redhat also signed a deal with them, are they really
> falling off or are they the Borg that is portrayed in comment 133?
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>
>
>
>
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Michael Leung
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