The Open Source Development Labs has voiced cautious optimism that its latest initiative could finally herald a mass-market for Linux on the desktop. OSDL is pushing ahead with Project Portland, to develop a common set of core technical requirements for Linux and open source software on the desktop, following a meeting of 47 companies and organizations it hosted earlier this month. Portland has identified a core set of areas, spanning the interface, plug-and-play, drivers and the kernel, that OSDL members will flesh out.
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Member since:Actually it is kind of relevant, since the guy I replied to was trying to dismiss the fact that the last 1-1.5 years I and a lot of other people suddenly noticed a lot more Linux users around, as an "statistic anomaly". Now, if it were only I who had this experience it might be some flux, like me moving to Linux-city or something. But when you suddenly get a lot of people who all tell the same story, either they are all lying (not plausible), or there is something going on. And that something is hardly a "statistic anomaly".
Windows is already having, officially, 95% or so of the desktop market and frankly doesn't have a lot more room to grow in, so it's pretty stagnant. We all know that apple isn't going anywhere, and that Mac users are probably less prone to drop their platform than a Windows user. So you tell me where all these new Linux users come from? "Statistical insignificance"?
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What I meant is, us arguing about whether or not one person knowing more linux users means anything, is irrelevant. We KNOW there are more linux users, but that does not automatically mean that this is the cause of that one person (you in this case) knowing more linux users. Likely? Maybe. But you can't assume a correlation.
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2005-07-06
It certainly doesn't prove anything either way. I don't think indicate works either, because that implies some proof, even if not concrete.
But obviously, this is all kind of irrelevant, since we all already knew that that the number of desktop linux users has grown.