[Gllug] BBC: Battle of the operating systems

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Sat Jan 27 10:47:52 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:47:04AM +0000, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Thomi Richards wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, I guess what I'm *trying* to say is that (IMHO) Linux and OSS
> > will succeed, one way or another.. I think we need to be careful how we
> > get there..
> 
> "will succeed"? 
> 
> We've already succeeded - Linux has massive penetration in the server 
> market (as does *BSD) and Linux has also gained a percentage of the 
> desktop market. 

It's better than that.  A large proportion of people who use computers
& the internet at all have Linux running at home (although they won't
be aware of it), and almost every one of them uses Google or another
online service built around it.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat UK Limited
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