“I am growing infernally curious about what the end-of-the-year
sales figures for Dell’s Ubuntu machines will be. Not just how many
bought those machines or in what proportion to Windows users, but
how their long-term experiences shape up against others (as well as
whether or not they elected to buy support). What if Linux has its
big day in the sun, and simply doesn’t achieve
more than a small percentage of the market?“Is that necessarily a bad thing, or just a reflection of what
percentage of people want something like Linux? And how many Linux
users are there out there…?”
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