>Linux proves this wrong. People built that when the market was completely dominated by Windows. Not really, I remember first seeing linux when I was at univer

>Linux proves this wrong. People built that when the market was completely dominated by Windows. Not really, I remember first seeing linux when I was at university in '93/94ish. The computer labs there were mostly SunOS (later Solaris) with a few Windows (3.11, I think) machines for business students. Personally many people had Macs or Amigas (or Atari ST) - or indeed they had PCs but running DOS/DRDOS etc. Windows wasn't completely dominating in business at that point either (although it was clearly winning, thanks to running on IBM compatible machines), DOS was still prevalent but I remember entire trading floors where all the desktops were Sun Ultras. When I started work a few years later the software we built worked on OS/2, NT, Mac (OS 8, I think) and various Unixes. I'd say the windows dominance wasn't long after, but the original Linux wasn't created in a market of complete windows dominance.