On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:49:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Most people run shit. Usability and security are mutually exclusive, > > as far as mainstream is concerned. > > Well, look who they've been trained by.
Out of a population of available systems at the time the Redmond one was selected, and further shaped by collective demand. Architecture and hence security were completely selection-neutral at the time. > Having had to mark down Linspire over and over and over and over until > it finally started selling versus stamping out Debian CDs for customers > who request them tells another story. Debian sells, Linspire does not. By mainstream I understand high two-digit percentile. OS X is completely niche with its 2-3% penetration. Debian doesn't exist as far as market volume is concerned. It's good that currently people choose a good distribution, but it's the fringe de la fringe, really. A Linux distribution of the future, to achieve 20-30% market penetration is going to be much worse, unfortunately. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net
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