Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-26 Thread Mattias Campe
Jan Claeys schreef: Op donderdag 21-02-2008 om 20:44 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Mattias Campe: Jan Claeys schreef: So, then why doesn't Apple have more than 3% marketshare on the PC market while they probably spend 50x more per unit sold than Microsoft on marketing...? ;) "Linux" i

Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-23 Thread Mattias Campe
Jan Claeys schreef: Op donderdag 21-02-2008 om 20:44 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Mattias Campe: Jan Claeys schreef: So, then why doesn't Apple have more than 3% marketshare on the PC market while they probably spend 50x more per unit sold than Microsoft on marketing...? ;) "Linux" i

Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-21 Thread Christophe Vandeplas
Andy Airey wrote: > Hi, > > Here are some stats collected by the W3C.org: > http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp > > Don't forget there's the "iGeneration" ;-) Some stats for FOSDEM; Linux 45.3 % Windows 40.2 % Macintosh 9 % Unknown 4 % BSD

Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-21 Thread Jan Claeys
Op donderdag 21-02-2008 om 20:44 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Mattias Campe: > Jan Claeys schreef: > > So, then why doesn't Apple have more than 3% marketshare on the PC > > market while they probably spend 50x more per unit sold than Microsoft > > on marketing...? ;) > > > > "Linux" is actuall

Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-21 Thread Andy Airey
Hi, Here are some stats collected by the W3C.org: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp Don't forget there's the "iGeneration" ;-) grtz On 21/02/2008, Mark Van den Borre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/2/21, Mattias Campe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > BTW Some time ago somebody po

Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-21 Thread Mark Van den Borre
2008/2/21, Mattias Campe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > BTW Some time ago somebody posted the results of some Belgian survey > somewhere where we could read that Linux is the most popular Linux > distribution in Belgium, but I can't seem to find that message any more. > Does somebody has any clue? > Hmm,

Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-21 Thread Mattias Campe
Mattias Campe schreef: Jan Claeys schreef: Op donderdag 21-02-2008 om 17:30 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Steven Leeman: - Everybody has Windows, so it has to be good. Nah MacOSX is good although not everybody has it... -> IT'S ALL ABOUT MARKETING... So, then why doesn't App

Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-21 Thread Mattias Campe
Jan Claeys schreef: Op donderdag 21-02-2008 om 17:30 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Steven Leeman: - Everybody has Windows, so it has to be good. Nah MacOSX is good although not everybody has it... -> IT'S ALL ABOUT MARKETING... So, then why doesn't Apple have more than 3% mar

Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-21 Thread Jan Claeys
Op donderdag 21-02-2008 om 17:30 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Steven Leeman: > > - Everybody has Windows, so it has to be good. > > Nah MacOSX is good although not everybody has it... -> IT'S ALL > ABOUT MARKETING... So, then why doesn't Apple have more than 3% marketshare on the PC market whi

Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-21 Thread Kevin Elaerts
I totally agree with this, finally my dad has seen the last straw in his struggles with fucked up microsoft machines and the fact that I can't even fix many off them anymore, cause I'm almost totally kicked off from using that very bad system. I once knew every aspect off that other OS for doin

Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-21 Thread Kurt De Smet
We can make a difference, since Ubuntu I've completely removed M$ from my pc's. I had many distro's RH, SuSe, Fedora etc.. but now it has reached a level so user friendly anyone can use it. Don't talk about installing cause 90% of the users can't install M$ either. And here we can make a differ

Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-21 Thread Bart Broeckx
I do not agree, it's true. We can't even sell Ubuntu in africa. That's because the africans like to be like the americans, they want what we've got. But that doesn't mean that we don't want it because it's free. There are more things that makes people don't want Linux. - Everybody has Windows,

Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-21 Thread Steven Leeman
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Bart Broeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not agree, it's true. > > We can't even sell Ubuntu in africa. That's because the africans like to > be like the americans, they want what we've got. > But that doesn't mean that we don't want it because it's free. >

Re: [Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-21 Thread Tom Van Braeckel
Op donderdag 21-02-2008 om 13:57 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Amedee Van Gasse: > An interesting article featured on /. > http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/02/why-linux-doesnt-spread-curse-of-being.html > > Thanks for sending that article Amedee, that's a really cool theory and I feel like I a

[Ubuntu-be] Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

2008-02-21 Thread Amedee Van Gasse
An interesting article featured on /. http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/02/why-linux-doesnt-spread-curse-of-being.html -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be