Firefox market share bounces back 668 plus 16

You are ever so correct, nut! Sorry about that. It is just that your reply was as insipid as his and that got me confused as to whom I was replying to.

A mind like a steel trap, nut! LOL!!! That is correct, but it is not the same as trying to save money.

Right. That establishes how much you can invest. A more important issue is how much revenue you can gain from the use of the investment. No it does not, nut. It may cut into Microsoft's overall revenues by limiting the size of the market, all on the buttumption that the linux users would pay for something else if they could not get a freebie. That is the presumption, say, of the RIAA when they count the cost of piracy of MP3s, but it is not such a valid buttumption. Very many of the MP3 downloaders would simply do without the track if it were not poachable. It is likely that the business volume of the legitimate CDs would not increase much and the cost that the RIAA puts out to stem the flow of Kazaa and other copies is wasted effort.

In the case of linux use, a large number of the machines that run linux were sold with a copy of Windows. Perhaps linux use limits the market by extending the life cycle of these machines, although I don't really believe that either.

And even less of a percentage of the global GNP, nut. So what? Marketing only occurs in a market and that is delimited by the characteristics of your product entry into the market. Microsoft sells a personal computer platform software product and they get way over 90% of the money spent in the world for that kind of thing. They get a similar share of the money spent for office automation software. They get a lot of money but a much smaller relative share of the database manager business. They get a whopping share of the corporate email Debt Management business with Exchange, too. They get more than half of the money spent for game consoles today, too.