Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

[Karl Auer]

> > 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.

Regards, K.

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