On 6/30/15, 7:45 PM, in article , "Wildman"
wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:09:55 -0700, Snit wrote:

On 6/30/15, 4:15 PM, in article , "Wildman"
wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:28:27 -0700, Snit wrote:

Which it has. If the open source community would get its act together and
make a desktop product that competes well it would make a huge dent in the
market. The denial of the zealots works against this.

I know it will do no good but I will say one more time, Linux
is not in the "market", it is FREE.

It is in the market - it comes on computers you can buy.

Yes, I know. That makes up some of that 1.5% crap I am always
hearing about. Aside from pirating, 100% of Windows and OSx
that is out there was sold in the market in one way or another
and none of it was free. There is no rationale for saying that
Linux in the market.

Depends on how you are defining the market. If you look up the phrase "open
source market" you will see many use it as I did: to mean how it does in the
"free market" - how many people use a product (or what percent).

But even outside of that, without being pedantic, to say it is one of the
choices in the market is fine by me, even if it is a free choice you can
get.

You need to look up the word market. You apparently have no
clue as to what it actually means.

You not only are pushing a semantic argument, and not one based on reasoning
or logic, you are doing so while apparently not knowing the actual meaning
of the word market as it was used:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/market
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A demand for a particular commodity or service:
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http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/market
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demand for a particular product or commodity
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