Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

[Chris Rees]

2009/5/14 Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>:
> Odd wrote:
>> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 13 May 2009 22:33:13 +0200
>>> Odd <iodine at runbox.no> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> That's your opinion, not a fact. I consider every Linux distro
>>>> "Linux". Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu. They're all Linux.
>>>>
>>> That is, of course, true, but only those distros which are for sale may
>>> truly claim 'market share'.  They also have each their /own/ market
>>> share, not Linux.  Linux has no market share at all, being free.  It
>>> has a user base instead.  A user base is virtually impossible to
>>> enumerate, particularly if its OS is openly available for sharing.
>>>
>>
>> True. I've seen user base numbers based on browser ID strings
>> from visits to popular web sites.I don't know how reliable these
>> numbers are though. Last I saw, Linux user base was 1% of the
>> desktop OS market. But my guess is that you can probably
>> add a couple of percent points to this.
>>
>>
>    With the bad economy World-wide the cost of Linux becomes an issue.
> I expect the Windows users are staying with XP. Linux users upgrade just
> because it suits them.
>
>
> Karl
>

Er, what? Cost of Linux?

Chris


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