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Wouldn't "hyperbole" imply that the statement isn't literally true?
by WilliamLP 16y ago
Wouldn't "hyperbole" imply that the statement isn't literally true?
- sgift 16y agoSingling out Linux as the most successful open source project is not literally true in my opinion. It is successful, other projects are successful too - how do you want to determine "most successful"?
- moe 16y agoIt is successful, other projects are successful too - how do you want to determine "most successful"? Most mindshare? Most impact? Most users? I wonder what metric you'd come up with that doesn't have Linux come out on top.
- pixelbath 16y agoI'd believe more users have heard of Firefox than have heard of Linux.
- moe 16y agoAgreed. That's one (valid) metric. But I think once you take at least two into account...
- lamnk 16y agoIMO if you count servers installed with Linux as "users" then Linux may have more users than Firefox (no hard data to back this up though)
- bad_user 16y agoAnd yet more users are using services running on top of Linux than are using Firefox. The best infrastructure software is the one you don't even know it exists ;)
- riffraff 16y agofor the sake of just finding a counterproof to something I agree with: maybe perl for the second? There is basically no *nix without perl (I recall it was also part of the MS build system for rotor), it has influenced basically every programming language in the last decade and it's been a dependency of the linux kernel build for a long time, though I seem to recall it's now removed :)
- lftl 16y agoIronically perl too basically has a benevolent dictator for life.