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I believe his point is that Linux has deeply pervaded practically everything except end-user PCs, and that we should recognize that this is really a big success
by cookiecaper 15y ago
I believe his point is that Linux has deeply pervaded practically everything except end-user PCs, and that we should recognize that this is really a big success even if it's not the holy grail of the "Linux desktop".
Not quite like Steve Ballmer saying Windows won because his kid uses a Zune. Linux will be in almost every advanced home appliance and/or consumer electronic you buy, whether you know it or not; Windows is on a very small handful of embedded devices manufactured by Microsoft (with the exception of Windows mobile OSes and of course, PCs).
- marvin 15y agoYou're forgetting most of the enterprise software market and a significant portion (15%) of all web servers in the world. Why do we always have to be so adversarial when it comes to choice of software? The Microsoft stack works great in the areas where is is popular, and the .NET library and the related development tools are excellent.
- cookiecaper 15y agoI'm not forgetting those, they just aren't relevant to the discussion. "deeply pervade" != "exclusive option"