The reality is that Linux has a poor market share, and something needs to change. According to Net Applications Linux’s market share is 0.95%, compared to nearly 93% for Windows and 5% for Mac.
Full story »The reality is that Linux has a poor market share, and something needs to change. According to Net Applications Linux’s market share is 0.95%, compared to nearly 93% for Windows and 5% for Mac.
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Ubuntu87
14 years 28 weeks 1 day 58 min ago
This is untrue.
This is absolutely untrue.
Because, from where I'm living (Jordan, which is a typical MS backyard), I'm starting to see an almost daily expanding circle of Linux users and supporters who learned about it, installed on their computers, fell in love with it and then went on spreading it among their friends and family who also did the same thing. Moreover, courses like "Operating Systems" are now taught with an Ubuntu Linux lab in my University.
Plus, your argument that companies won't support Linux because it's open source or whatever, is flat-out false, imho.
How so? Because companies don't really give a damn about technology or whether it's open or close, as long as whatever they do with it brings them more money and more customers. Which is exactly what's happening with companies like DELL, who noticed the expanding range of Linux users and decided to attract them by releasing Ubuntu-pre-installed Laptops and Netbooks. Also there's Samsung, who noticed the rise of Android and decided to release Android-powered mobile phones. also you have Tomtom, the German GPS devices company..etc.