On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:34:13 -0500, HeyBub wrote:

Of course you're using a Mac (accounting for about 7% of the installed
computer customer base). Still, the Mac is more popular than various
versions of Linux which, at less than 1% of the market, no one will use
if even if it was given to them.

Microsoft is afraid of Linux and works very hard on many fronts to slow
Linux adoption. Some of Microsoft's methods a the meritless SCO lawsuit
by proxy, bullying OEM agreements that forbid selling dual boot machines,
astroturfing, patent FUD and other FUD, charity software donations to
schools and developing countries that forbid the co-use of GPL and Open
Source software (ruling out using Linux), and many other tactics.

Balmer was right about one thing. Linux is a cancer to Microsoft, and is
Microsoft's number one peril. It is going to eat them, but it will be a
slow process.

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Tony Sivori
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