<div dir="ltr">nice read.but reg market share ,there are not any accurate way to calculate the no. of GNU/Linux users. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Zaheer Kozhakkaniyil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zaheermk@email.com">zaheermk@email.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span>Thirty years of proprietary software thinking have conditioned us to think that <i>marketshare</i>
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".<span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span><br>
</p><p>The above passage has been taken from the article, <font style="font-weight: bold;" size="3">Why sharing matters more than marketshare to GNU/Linux</font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, at <a href="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/sharing_matters_more_than_market_share_linux" target="_blank">http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/sharing_matters_more_than_market_share_linux</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> .</span></p>
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</p><pre>Zaheer M K
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