amicus_curious wrote:
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> "Sinister Midget" <fardblossom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:t6q166-f8g.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> And lay off coders and bug crushers.
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> Ah, it is amusing to watch you silly geese struggle to find a button and
> sew on a shirt! You hope and pray for Mr. Softee to stumble and so
> legitimatize your endless sneers and libels, but you must realize how
> fruitless that has proven to be. Microsoft rises and falls with the
> consumer economy these days since it has become a mainstay of the broad
> middle markets. You folk beam with pride when the Linux mind share
> moves from .7% to .8% or whatever and gleefully point to Windows decline
> from 91% to 89% or so in some off the beat survey. Microsoft sets the
> pace, still, and is the world's standard of comparison for the desktop
> and has the largest share of any OS in the server room. With maybe a
> nod to Netware, Linux is dead last in every market.
Linux has done very well for something that started as a college project
to learn about operating systems.
Too bad for you and M$ that Linux can't have its air supply cut off the
way they did to Netscape. Maybe someday you'll wake up and realize
market share numbers mean nothing to free software.
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