On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 11:32 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Scott van Looy wrote:
> Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:
>
>> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>
>>>> Most of my closed source drivers are used with closed source OS's
and
>>>> are simply not an issue.
>>>
>>> I assumed, since you are writing to a Fedora newsgroup/mailing list,
>>> that you were talking about using closed drivers under Fedora.
>>>
>>> If you are talking about Windows drivers under Windows OS
>>> I don't really see the relevance.
>>
>> The relevance is that the Linux faithful like to regurgitate the lines
>> about how stable interfaces and binary drivers can't work when in fact
>> they work just fine and the majority of the world runs on them taking
>> advantage of the vendor's expertise and desire for a competitive
>> advantage. Just a reality check...
>
> They do?
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp puts Linux at 3%.
Somewhere I thought I saw that current sales were around 8% Mac compared
to the overall 3.8% though.
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those numbers just don't look right. I refuse to believe that Win98 is
and has been under 1% and Vista is so small.
As for Macintosh sales being 8%, I haven't seen any such report...that
would be a significant increase.
Craig