Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

[Odd]

Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Wed, 13 May 2009 21:55:41 +0200
> Odd <iodine at runbox.no> wrote:
>> I see. So to you, if you were the last two persons using desktop
>> Linux, you'd still call it successful?
> 
> Successful for me, sure, but that's a silly scenario as there are
> already millions of users of Linux.
> 
>> I guess the people running
>> AmigaOS in this day and age agrees with you. I also bet they wish more
>> people were using it.
> 
> I don't follow the reasoning of using an OS and wishing others would use
> it, too.  Why does what they choose matter to me as long as the two
> (or several) OSs can communicate one with the other(s)?

Because the more people use it, the more software is produced for it
of course. AmigaOS doesn't even have a browser that handles CSS.
That's because too few people are using it. It lacks critical mass.
So remaining Amiga users wish more people would use it. You see
my point?

> Perhaps you really mean you wish that the Linux market share was higher

Yes.

> but Linux really has no market share.  RedHat does, and the several
> other commercial variants but Linux /as Linux/, no.

That's your opinion, not a fact. I consider every Linux distro "Linux".
Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu. They're all Linux.

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Odd