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According to Net Applications' Netmarketshare, the Linux market share on the desktop as judged by browser interactions may now be above 3%.
The company is reporting a 3.37% Linux marketshare for August 2017, a rise from 2.53% a month prior and the first time they have reported the Linux desktop marketshare above 3%.
They report Windows meanwhile at 90.7%, macOS at 5.94%, and the other operating systems statistically at zero. Their monthly report can be found here.
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The Official Colorado State Vegetable is now the "state legislator".
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @08:32PM (4 children)
There was, i think, an attitude within Microsoft that whatever they did was a standard.
(Score: 2) by Chromium_One on Sunday September 03 2017, @11:41PM (2 children)
There is, I do believe, still much of this attitude present, though it's not quite as all-pervasive as it used to be.
When you live in a sick society, everything you do is wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @07:58AM (1 child)
What is a "microsoft"?
*Posted from my Android tablet, running free and open source software that Gill Bates can never get his hands on, ever. *
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Chromium_One on Monday September 04 2017, @09:11PM
MS is trying, oh yes, they're trying.
So far they've been contributors to Linux kernel code, though as far as I know that's been entirely benign - patches to allow Linux to run better under Hyper-V and such. Also looking at the entire Linux subsystem for Win10 - how long until they're trying to add code back to upstream wholesale? Bet ya their line of thinking is something like "Give it time and us acting like responsible community members, and maybe some patches later don't get checked as thoroughly as they should." Then there's the entire CyanogenMod thing. MS was a financial contributor and was starting to contribute code to the project as well. Pretty sure I'm not the only one who is REALLY happy that it all fell apart and Lineage OS got organized so quickly.
Not as directly damaging, note that last I looked, MS is still collecting something like $5/pop in patent royalties for a great number of Android devices sold. Insert argument here about good and bad points of current IP law, software patents, etc.
When you live in a sick society, everything you do is wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @06:06AM
ref provided https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish [wikipedia.org]