Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 15th Dec 2006 21:12 UTC
"The FSF today launched a campaign with a twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users' security and privacy rights. "Vista is an upsell masquerading as an upgrade. It is an overall regression when you look at the most important aspect of owning and using a computer: your control over what it does. Obviously MS Windows is already proprietary and very restrictive, and well worth rejecting. But the new 'features' in Vista are a Trojan Horse to smuggle in even more restrictions. We'll be focusing attention on detailing how they work, how to resist them, and why people should care", said FSF program administrator John Sullivan."
Thread beginning with comment 193108
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Member since:
2005-07-02
About 10% actually. Apple is between 3% and 4% and Linux is around .36%.
No, actually it's about the same, between 3 and 6% for Linux, according to the latest market share data.
The .36% number you suggest is not a market share figure. It is derived from web stats, which cannot identify the number of unique visitors and therefore are useless to determine market share. Furthermore, there are many factors affecting web statistics (clientele bias, caching issues, user agent masquerading, AOL user oversampling, broadband bias, etc.) and therefore their accuracy is approximative at best - if they could be used to determine market share in the first place, which they can't.
IDC's research gave 3% in january 2005. There's no reason to believe it has decreased since then.
So why can I buy a D*** with Linux on it?
NotParker, stop being such a D***.
Why does D*** sell so few of their computers with Linux on them?
Virtually no marketing push behind it. Compare it to the marketing push behind Windows...it's really not all that complicated.