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:Why Sharing Matters More Than Marketshare to GNU/Linux
Why Sharing Matters More Than Marketshare to GNU/Linux
Aug 4, 2008, 21 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (3855 reads)

(Other stories by Terry Hancock)

"Thirty years of proprietary software thinking have conditioned us to think that marketshare is a critical measure of success, and so we’ve convinced ourselves that we have to “win” against Windows in order to “succeed”. But this is simply not true. GNU/Linux can be a very great success even if it never achieves more than 1% of the installations in the world. The reason is the difference between “power” and “freedom”."

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The article said that having some amount ...   Marketshare matters   
Jose_X
Aug 5, 2008, 01:28:04
 
 I wouldn't change that 1% for the 1 ...   The biggest 1% in history   
Shamar
Aug 5, 2008, 06:18:50
 
...means a critical mass of government a ...   Low market share...   
cjm
Aug 5, 2008, 15:02:45
 
>>  And I think that offers a clue as to ...   Re: Low market share...   
Jose_X
Aug 5, 2008, 17:01:21
 
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