[ILUG-Cochin.org] GNU/Linux can be a success even if it is not used by 1%

[Zaheer Kozhakkaniyil]

"Thirty years of proprietary software thinking have conditioned us to
think that marketshare is a critical measure of success, and so we’ve
convinced ourselves that we have to “win” against Windows in order to
“succeed”. But this is simply not true. GNU/Linux can be a very great
success even if it never achieves more than 1% of the installations in
the world. The reason is the difference between “power” and “freedom”."

The above passage has been taken from the article, Why sharing matters
more than marketshare to GNU/Linux, at
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/sharing_matters_more_than_market_share_linux
.

Zaheer M K
GNU/Linux user #351122
Registered at http://counter.li.org

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