Re: Will Linux EVER hit 1 percent????

[kevpan815]

"Snit" <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote in message
news:C4993B27.C6506%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com...
> "Moshe Goldfarb." <brick_n_straw@gmail.com> stated in post
> 1xbbmlptdln3i.eyh1adub83rk.dlg@40tude.net on 7/8/08 3:33 PM:
>
>> Linux has been around for 15+ years.
>> Linux is free.
>> Linux applications are free.
>>
>> So, the question is why is Linux still sitting at below 1 percent of the
>> desktop market?
>>
>> Something that is free is used by so little of the population?
>> People would rather spend big bucks for Vista or even more expensive
>> switch
>> to Mac, like a lot are doing, rather than run free Linux?
>>
>> Something is seriously wrong with Linux....
>
> The lack of coherence and polish in the UI matter. OSS tends to have the
> tech in the background done well, hence the reason it works so well on
> servers, but the front end - while getting better - still has a ways to
> go.
>
>
> --
> Do you ever wake up in a cold sweat wondering what the world would be
> like if the Lamarckian view of evolution had ended up being accepted
> over Darwin's?
>
Did You Ever Wake Up In A Cold Sweat Wondering Why Your Hand Was Rubbing
Your Tiny Little Dick?

 

[Damian]

kevpan815 wrote:
> "Snit" <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote in message
> news:C4993B27.C6506%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com...
>> "Moshe Goldfarb." <brick_n_straw@gmail.com> stated in post
>> 1xbbmlptdln3i.eyh1adub83rk.dlg@40tude.net on 7/8/08 3:33 PM:
>>
>>> Linux has been around for 15+ years.
>>> Linux is free.
>>> Linux applications are free.
>>>
>>> So, the question is why is Linux still sitting at below 1 percent
>>> of the desktop market?
>>>
>>> Something that is free is used by so little of the population?
>>> People would rather spend big bucks for Vista or even more expensive
>>> switch
>>> to Mac, like a lot are doing, rather than run free Linux?
>>>
>>> Something is seriously wrong with Linux....
>>
>> The lack of coherence and polish in the UI matter. OSS tends to
>> have the tech in the background done well, hence the reason it works
>> so well on servers, but the front end - while getting better - still
>> has a ways to go.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Do you ever wake up in a cold sweat wondering what the world would be
>> like if the Lamarckian view of evolution had ended up being accepted
>> over Darwin's?
>>
> Did You Ever Wake Up In A Cold Sweat Wondering Why Your Hand Was
> Rubbing Your Tiny Little Dick?

Your dreams aren't universal.

 

[Bruce Sinclair]

In article <C4999B34.C6613%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>"High Plains Thumper" <highplainsthumper@invalid.invalid> stated in post
>pan.2008.07.09.05.23.28.450000@invalid.invalid on 7/8/08 10:23 PM:
>
>....
>>>>> The lack of coherence and polish in the UI matter. OSS tends to have
>>>>> the tech in the background done well, hence the reason it works so
>>>>> well on servers, but the front end - while getting better - still has
>>>>> a ways to go.
>>
>> http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/2007/01/snit-troll.html
>>
>>

>> Name: snit
>>
>> Traits:
>>
>> * MAC troll
>> * Cross posts to maximize newsgroup disruption
>> * Despised by many on COLA and COMA (comp.os.mac.advocacy)
>> * Proves the saying 'those that can do, those that can't teach
>> * Idiot
>>
>> [....]
>>
>> Apparently, Snit is not well liked for his trolling, as expressed in this
>> reply:

>
>A troll named Steve Carroll scavenged / made up those quotes - but what he
>and other trolls have failed to do - and shall continue to fail to do - is
>actually show anything *I* have done that is significantly wrong.
>
>I speak about truth - something trolls cannot stand.

If that's so, you had better say what it is. No one knows at the moment but
you

 

[Snit]

"High Plains Thumper" <highplainsthumper@invalid.invalid> stated in post
pan.2008.07.09.05.23.28.450000@invalid.invalid on 7/8/08 10:23 PM:

....
>>>> The lack of coherence and polish in the UI matter. OSS tends to have
>>>> the tech in the background done well, hence the reason it works so
>>>> well on servers, but the front end - while getting better - still has
>>>> a ways to go.
>
> http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/2007/01/snit-troll.html
>
>

> Name: snit
>
> Traits:
>
> * MAC troll
> * Cross posts to maximize newsgroup disruption
> * Despised by many on COLA and COMA (comp.os.mac.advocacy)
> * Proves the saying 'those that can do, those that can't teach
> * Idiot
>
> [....]
>
> Apparently, Snit is not well liked for his trolling, as expressed in this
> reply:

A troll named Steve Carroll scavenged / made up those quotes - but what he
and other trolls have failed to do - and shall continue to fail to do - is
actually show anything *I* have done that is significantly wrong.

I speak about truth - something trolls cannot stand.



--
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
--Aldous Huxley