Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

Odd iodine at runbox.no
Thu May 14 02:08:24 UTC 2009


Karl Auer wrote:
>>> Odd <iodine at runbox.no> wrote:
>>> only those distros which are for sale may
>>> truly claim 'market share'. [...] Linux has no market share at all,
>>> being free.
> 
> I think that is sophistry.
> 
> If ten people use "an operating system", and two of them use a
> particular operating system, then that particular operating system has
> 20 percent of the market. Any other definition of "market" is too narrow
> to be useful.
> 
> Another way of looking at it is to say that zero dollars is still a
> price, it's just a very low one.

Be careful with your quoting. I didn't say what you quote above,
that was Cybe R. Wizard.

-- 
Odd




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