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Re: More attention to KDE Education project
by Fri13 on Thursday 25/Oct/2007, @12:02

"I've been hearing for years how 'this is the year of Linux on the desktop" and in truth it has not happened."

What does "Year of Linux on the desktop" really mean? Does it mean that in that year, 50% of windows users switch to GNU/Linux? Does it mean that 50% of commercial software makers starts making applications to GNU/Linux?
If it does mean that GNU/Linux is easy enough to be used by avarage joe and avarage Lisa, then it has already happend on 2006. We dont anymore see "This is year of Linux" because it has already happend. Now we just need to keep supporting that it will not go "It was year of Linux few years ago".

"Linux still hovers around 1 percent of desktop market share."

Then that 1% desktop market share must come from our country (Finland) alone... because GNU/Linux is in media everyday, it gets installed everyday to new users in big installation rate, you can go to PC store and get GNU/Linux distro. You can almoust go any school (any level) and ask how many use GNU/Linux at home on PC and you get 30% hands getting up.
Only place where you have problems to see GNU/Linux is in big corporations what still hesitate to move. If those big corporations would start developing open softaware from those needed apps, it would pay itself back in 10 years and after that, it would be free from Microsoft.

And it's just bulls't that GNU/Linux has only 1% marketshare. By tought estimate it is now over 5-7%

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