Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 18th Nov 2006 18:23 UTC, submitted by editingwhiz
South Africa native and current London resident Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Ltd. and the Ubuntu Linux distribution, told DesktopLinux.com Friday in an interview that widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop - so long-awaited by many people. "Yes - I think Linux will be the dominant platform. It already defines the landscape in the server space (from supercomputers to YouTube). The desktop is just a matter of time."
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RE[7]: Far too optimistic, IMO
by czubin on Sun 19th Nov 2006 12:51
in reply to "RE[6]: Far too optimistic, IMO"
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From a business perspective that number is high enough to get a couple programmers rewrite the non-portable code.
I mean as a business you're missing out 3% off your revenue stream. That's A LOT!
But I don't see companies port their applications any time soon simply because they probably never build their application in platform independant manor.(which is simply retarded)
btw there's no extra cost to write an application to still be able to easily port it later, just don't hire retards
How high revenue do you expect from a community that don't want to use any software that's not free, end even it's free, if the source is not given, they still don't want to use it, and also if you give the source, but it's not GPL, you will be bashed?
Edited 2006-11-19 10:33