Ian Murdock blogs about the importance of backward compatibility. "Yes, it's hard, particularly in the Linux world, because there are thousands of developers building the components that make up the platform, and it just takes one to break compatibility and make our lives difficult. Even worse, the idea of keeping extraneous stuff around for the long term 'just' for the sake of compatibility is anathema to most engineers. Elegance of design is a much higher calling than the pedestrian task of making sure things don't break. Why is backward compatibility important?"
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"nah, i don't think it's flame fest. he just wanted to mention two OS that actually have something going in the desktop market, for a chage. especially windows, because of it's 96% desktop market share it has had for a long time."
You know the answer to this one. Its been answered everywhere.
Mind you I have been playing with this for ages.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2&qpmr=15&qpdt=1&...
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"http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2&qpmr=15&..."
From the link you posted how many Sytem76 laptop are reported and accounted for in your data ?
From the same link how many Dell workstation that where sold with GNU/Linux as default OS are accounted for ?
From the same link how many Acer Laptop that shipped with GNU/Linux in the software package but not installed is accounted for ?
The answer to all the above is they where not accounted for hence making you statistic false and incomplete. Also 40 000 website that use netapplication webtools does not make the internet or any valuable marketshare report that is worth reporting on.
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You cannot get market share figures from web site statistics. This has been debunked time and time again over here. There are many reasons for this (biased, self-selected sample; User Agent masquerading or ambiguousness; persistent vs. ephemeral IPs; etc.), but mostly it is because it is *impossible* to get the number of individual visitors from web log analysis - the only thing you can get is the number of hits. Moreover, AOL users are notoriously overcounted when visiting pages with many images, registering as a different unique visitor for each.
Firms pretending to give you market share from web stats are basically the electronic equivalent of Snake Oil peddlers. Many in fact use the term "usage share" as a way to avoid getting in trouble with false advertisement laws.
Edit: here's an example of a radically different picture...how do you reconcile this with the stats you provided? Well, you don't, because both are by design incapable of giving actual market share figures...
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats/
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I think it is a flame fest and I think there are plenty of advertisers that are working for microsoft out there that like to flame Linux. It doesn't matter it doesn't fool the linux organization anyways. Anytime somebody comments about market share percentages (that are inaccurate due to not knowing how many people use linux as their desktop out there) are either another ignorant poster that believes the analysts and the media have correct statistics or are in fact paid off by microsoft some way which could be an organization that is making money because of microsoft or is employed by them.
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/*The article mentions MacOS and MicrosoftOS and is on a Linux site.
I'm very very confused. This is just a flame fest and I know it.*/
nah, i don't think it's flame fest. he just wanted to mention two OS that actually have something going in the desktop market, for a chage. especially windows, because of it's 96% desktop market share it has had for a long time.