Business is not Evil (was: HOW-TO: Giving up Ubuntu)

[Derek Broughton]

Daniel Goldsmith wrote:

> Sorry to butt in on this argument, but one aspect jumps out and annoys me
> 
> On 11/16/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> 
>> > can have market share and it's not restricted to those who bought a
>> > commercial GNU/Linux variant...
>>
>> No, we can't.  Market share is _defined_ based on the $ value of the
>> market. Since Linux is, for the most part, free as in beer, we can never
>> have a measurable market share.
> 
> This is wholly incorrect on two counts.

No, it isn't.  Ask the Gartner group how they count market share.  I haven't
said that Linux doesn't have an appreciable number of users - I'm saying
that surveys listing "market share" NEVER include non-commercial software.

-- 
derek