[KLUG Members] I almost snorted coffee out my nostrils...

[Robert G. Brown]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:23:31 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com> wrote:


>> http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/17/cx_ld_0617linux.html

>>"NEW YORK - Judging from the holy war being waged by proponents of Linux
>>PCs, it's clear that Linux is becoming the OS/2 of its time. "
What intoxicants are being consumed here?

>Do people just like to use the "holy war" metaphor?  'cause I've read some
>history - this ain't anything like one.

Drama, with which this article is saturated.

>More like a populist smack-down of the oligarchs than a holy war.
>From our point of view. Maybe that's more realistic. From the Microsoft 
point of view, what is protrayed in this article may be right. I really
have no idea.

>And comparing OS/2 & Linux?  Pleeeeze.  Linux had more marketshare three 
>years ago than OS/2 ever had.  And today?  OS/2 could only ever dream 
>about these kind of penetration numbers.

I don't know how high the OS/2 profile was at its peak, but it probably was 
as high or higher than Linux is right now (on the desktop only, Linux has 
made FAR more progress in the server world).

This article seems to be a very grim, FUD-ridden version of the real world,
even given that Windows (in the USA) as +/- 90% marketshare...

This article is so shot through with un- and half-truths that it can only 
be dealt with line-by-line.. it's that bad.

Someone ought to reply to Forbes' editors about this, with hard research...
any takers?

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