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byVonSkippy ( 892467 ) writes:
Is it really that hard to garner just the smallest of market share when you have 1900 different products that classify as "linux"? The metrics count even a single day of use before that user distro hops to yet another choice - so one user can count as 50 or 100? Only the linux cultists will take this 5% as something wow-able, to the rest of the computer biz, it's only slightly better then the rounding error it's always been. What's more impressive is with a product that's GIVEN AWAY FREE, they can only g
byebyrob ( 165903 ) writes:
> What's more impressive is with a product that's GIVEN AWAY FREE
When's the last time you paid for Windows? (usually comes free on integrated laptop / desktop, or non-activated free ISO installation)
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