Steve <sgrobe at mn.rr.com> wrote: > > I hear things like this a lot and not just from geeks. Public > perception is changing direction slowly, much like a steamroller. I > would hate to be the one standing in front of the steamroller trying to > stop it. Heh.. /me recalls the scene from Austin Powers.. A few years ago, Linux news sites were all abuzz with the fact that Linux appears to have a 100% growth rate from year to year. Did you get a friend interested in Linux in the last 12 months? Well, doubling might be stretching things, but Linux is and has been growing amazingly well. IDC still says Linux only holds about 1% of the desktop market, which I find really hard to believe. Of course, they base their figures on sales of pre-installed systems, so the numbers are skewed. Probably the scariest thing for Microsoft is the fact that they have no idea how many Linux desktops are out there. I think that if MS makes a bad move, there's a good possibility that their market share will drop by 5-10% almost overnight as people who have been trying out Linux finally get fed up and wipe their Windows installs. But I might just be crazy -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Unificatiory. / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]