Comment 1040 for bug 1

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Bastien Scher (bastien0705) wrote : Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

bert07 a écrit :
> shane fagan wrote:
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>> I dont think its their fault entirely. The fact is they dont need a community behind them like the FLOSS community.
>> We rely on the help of all corners of the community to make our software the best, Microsoft dont.
>> Its very easy to say they arent cool but they dont need to be cool.
>> We need to be cool, we need to have the community.
>> To test, to develop, to test, to report bugs, to help in anyway we can.
>> Of course we do have help from companies like Novell, Red Hat and Canonical but the community is what FLOSS runs on.
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> To be a little bit cruel, one can say that with the community, there
> wouldn't be a Linux either.
>
> And of course Windows has its advantages. Almost all programs are
> written with Windows in mind.
> I never said Windows was bad.
> I do state that Linux has its own advantages.
> The community is one of them.
>
>
But, if programs are written with Windows in mind, it's because...
Microsoft has a majority market share.
It is a vicious circle.