Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 2nd May 2009 10:23 UTC, submitted by Luis
Yes boys and girls, it's Net Applications time. Sure, their figures are flawed, and sure, they're misused all over the non-scientifically educated media, but that doesn't mean they do not indicate trends. One of those trends was a slowly rising popularity of Linux, which hit 0.93% market share in August 2008, only to sink back again during the following months. Well, it's 
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RE[5]: I hope that Linux market share continues to grow
by sbergman27 on Sun 3rd May 2009 12:26
in reply to "RE[4]: I hope that Linux market share continues to grow"
Member since:2005-07-24
No commercial entity can "subvert" the community totally, and
It's not so much the commercial entities, but the invasion by unwashed masses. There's something to be said for having them segregated off in the Windows camp.
It's kind of like in "Night of the Living Dead". Sure, the zombies are stupid and slow. But there are so *many* of them. At first it seems like you can just outrun them. But next thing you know, you're surrounded and they're eating your liver.
RE[6]: I hope that Linux market share continues to grow
by ichi on Sun 3rd May 2009 15:12
in reply to "RE[5]: I hope that Linux market share continues to grow"
Member since:2007-03-06
It's not so much the commercial entities, but the invasion by unwashed masses. There's something to be said for having them segregated off in the Windows camp.
It's kind of like in "Night of the Living Dead". Sure, the zombies are stupid and slow. But there are so *many* of them. At first it seems like you can just outrun them. But next thing you know, you're surrounded and they're eating your liver.
It's kind of like in "Night of the Living Dead". Sure, the zombies are stupid and slow. But there are so *many* of them. At first it seems like you can just outrun them. But next thing you know, you're surrounded and they're eating your liver.
Hopefully blowing their heads off would also work in this case
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2008-12-26
They will probably start demanding things like better drivers, so we'll all win anyway. No commercial entity can "subvert" the community totally, and if they did we could always go back in time and fork from non-subverted version of whatever component went bad (X, Kernel, package managers, ...)
So, it's a win overall.
Edited 2009-05-03 10:58 UTC