[Tfug] 2 weeks of Hackintosh fun..

[Stott, Will]

I think you will be seeing a transfer of "shares" soon if M$ doesn't save itself. The obliteration of vista, and the stability of os x has put a good sized dent into the evil empires bread n butter. I am sure that there is more to come. One note: free does not make people want it more when the other guy has the os built into every commercial pc sale for every major vendor across the world... It just means more work at that point... 
Will


-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org <tfug-bounces at tfug.org>
To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Mon Nov 10 17:42:54 2008
Subject: Re: [Tfug] 2 weeks of Hackintosh fun..

--- On Mon, 11/10/08, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:

> The problem must be me: I'm still confused!

The "problem" is people bemoaning Linux's 1% (?) share of the
desktop (IIRC, Apple is now at about 7-8% and the rest? goes
to the Evil Empire?) and then ignoring the reasons why those
other 99% (?) of users aren't adopting their beloved platform.

Bowie and Jim (and ?) have obviously made their own decisions
to move *away* from Linux in this aspect.  You and I have opted
to head backwards in time (in terms of hardware) and/or
application support to "accommodate" FOSS OS's.  But those
"others" aren't even *interested* in Linux!

Think about it.  It's ''Free'' yet The Market is saying "No thanks".
It "works" yet The Market is saying "No thanks".  No matter how
hard you try, you just can't realistically rationalize away The
Market's disinterest!  

"All those people just *can't* be 'wrong'! (?)"

<grin>


      

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