PEDRO LITTLE wrote:
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> "7" <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Micoshaft Asstroturfer PEDRO LITTLE wrote on behalf of Micoshaft
>> Corporation:
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>>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>> Tech Predictions for 2008
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>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | A Linux Year
>>>
>>> So for the 10th year in a row someone is (wrongly) predicting that "This
>>> will be the year of linux."
>>>
>>> This is almost becoming funny now. Someone ought to take the early
>>> initiative and predict that 2041 will be the "Year of Linux."
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>>
>> The 'Year of Linux' was about 3 years ago in many markets.
>>
>> Linux now sells 1 million embedded devices per day.
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> No. It's not "Linux" that sells embedded devices. Perhaps these devices
> run linux but it is not linux that sells these devices. I'm quite sure
> that very, very, very few people buy a microwave oven or a GPS or a
> digital camera because of linux. They buy it for a completely different
> reason and couldn't care less what OS their "appliance" uses internally.
I seem to remember other OS vendors have tried and failed
to corner the embedded market. Only Linux has displaced
all of them and is expanding at an ever faster rate with
more devices doing Linux and open source than ever before.
>> The one you are referring to is desktop only because that
>> is important to you and your employer Micoshaft Corporation.
>
> Don't work there now, have never worked there before. So you are
> definitely full of shit.
So which company do you asstroturf for?
>> Linux is fast catching up - new Linux desktops are growing
>> at somewhere between 1 million and 2 million desktops per month.
>
> And you have proof of this? Of course not because you are a liar like Rex
> Ballard.
You merely have to show output of an approved tool that measures
Linux to prove this wrong.
>> Not long now before it turns into a torrent on the
>> desktop like in other markets.
>
> Not long before pigs grow wings and start flying.
Such confidence?
Nobody else like Linux is taking the desktop fight to
every corner of the globe and winning.
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http://www.distrowatch.com
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