[TriLUG] Steam says that two percent of its users are now on Linux

[Brandon Van Every]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:39 AM, John Vaughters <jvaughters04 at yahoo.com>wrote:

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>
> >No, I'm talking about Apple's proprietary business model being worth all
> >the money.  Apple is *not* compatible with anything else in any way that
> >matters for making Apple money.  That's why MS wants to be Apple, and
> >Canonical wants to be Apple.  Nobody's sharing the consumer market,
> they're
> >fighting tooth and nail over it, with incompatible proprietary
> >implementations.  Although in Canonical's case, they might pull a rabbit
> >out of their arse that benefits Linux generally.  But I'm doubting it, as
> >it reeks of NIH and platform fragmentation, the main thing that drives
> >consumers away from Linux in the 1st place.
>
>  Brandon,
>
> We will have to agree to disagree on Apple. Saying Apple is not compatible
> is truly misleading in every sense. If I can compile a program from open
> source *nix and use it on Apple,


...then you are ignoring the entire consumer market, what drives it, what
matters within it, what actually is making Apple all of its money.  You
seem somewhere between unconcerned to oblivious of those market dynamics,
which is why we're talking past each other.


Cheers,
Brandon