Linux's Advantages For The Software Developer 13382

Of course, we've only your bare, unsupported buttertion that the "exceptions" *are* in fact "inconsequential", and that the "results" are not "effective".

Your marketing insights have proven spectacularly inaccurate with respect to Firefox; why should anyone trust them with respect to Linux?

But that, of course, is not the strategy. Many of the key apps (Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice) are available for Windows as well. And once people switch over to them (as they are increasingly doing - the most recent numbers for Firefox are quite impressive, and we're all familiar with the news about OpenOffice), there's far less reason to stay with Windows and its cost, security headaches, and arbitrary restrictions.

In a way, I'm okay with the Xbox selling well. Aside from that fact that they sell it as a loss, the fewer people using their PC for games, the weaker the hold Windows has on that market. Microsoft has a real balancing act to do there.

That was back in June. And it was 1.1-1.7%, and that was Australia only, it's hard to extrapolate those numbers to other areas of the world. But, if you believe IDC, here's a note:

"On the desktop side, IDC sees Linux' share more than doubling, from 3% today to 6% in 2007, while Windows loses a bit of ground."

Why arbitrarily limit it to this year? IDC doesn't. Linux is a long-term threat to Microsoft, though not as long as you hope. Web developers are increasingly adjusting their practices to make sure their sites work with Firefox; as Linux's desktop share increases (as well as Apple's) other developers will increasingly be directing attention to working with those platforms, too.

Ah, yes, an absolute word like "anyone" again. Google for "need to download vbrun" to see how many people your kind of "anyone" does not include.

Ah, but my claims are far more believable, since I've actually substantiated them. I've made no secret about where my website is. You, on the other hand... (hint hint).

-- Sincerely,

Ray Ingles (313) 227-2317

"There are two kinds of people; those who finish what they start and so on." - Anonymous