Implications for real world Linux desktop usage?
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| BernardSwiss Sep 20, 2011 9:02 PM EDT |
Does this reflect the true global penetration of Linux on the desktop? This is not a "tech press" article. This article appears to be a non-teh oriented column in a regular daily paper,. But it's not a North American, British or North-West European journal. In the interminable war between Linux advocates vs Linux detractors, it is often asserted (sometime honestly) that Linux accounts for only one percent (maybe two) of desktop systems, while others counter that if the figure has any real-world meaning, it applies at best only to N. America and certain parts of Europe. I personally find it difficult to imagine that a newspaper, in Manila or elsewhere, would publish such an article on a supposedly obscure and techie-fringe operating system -- under the "Business" rubric, yet -- without a fairly clear appreciation that a significant proportion of their readership would have a personal interest in the matter at hand -- which strongly implies that Linux is much more popular in the wider world than is generally acknowledged in ours. ? ? ? |
| r_a_trip Sep 21, 2011 2:48 AM EDT |
BernardSwiss, you might be on to something. It certainly is supported by the fact that Microsoft specifically invented Windows Starter Edition for these markets. If there was no threat to their World Domination (tm) plans there, they would just leisurely wait for the most convenient time to move in with a regular Windows. |
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