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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Eli,<BR>
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>My bet is that Linux will become mainstream because non-computer<BR>
>oriented companies with more than 10 computers will discover the<BR>
>advantage of maintaining the computers with Linux on them. And once<BR>
>ordinary people start to get used to it, the barrier is away.<BR>
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> This is slowly happening, unless you've noticed that.<BR>
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First, why bet?<BR>
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Second: Is it no tooooooooooooooooooo slowly ???<BR>
will we exist by then at all? Why not now?<BR>
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It seems to me that the percentage of home Linux Desktops is about 0.5% only among<BR>
all OS desktops (see link below).<BR>
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I don't think there is a really impressive growth in this percentage in<BR>
the recent years.<BR>
Is this really going to change in the near future?<BR>
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(BTW, according to this interesting post, 8% of the home desktops are MacOS desktops and 0.5% are Linux: <A HREF="http://firstpost.org/?p=235">http://firstpost.org/?p=235</A>)<BR>
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Regards,<BR>
YA<BR>
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