So I would finish it by saying this: Market runs on difference of opinions. [?][?] Pretty much proved by this discussion itself, fighting for the same cause but still different opinions...
2009/12/3 Krishnakant hackingkk@gmail.com
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 13:06 +0530, Sanket Shah wrote:
Ok, these statements are not my notion to clarify, these notions are
there
in people believe or not... just shows lack of knowledge that its
available.
Organizations are using linux but many more are not... And u cant know anything w/o trying it out, people say its complex coz they havent used
it,
i'm not saying it is complex (personally i find windows more complex),
just
there in people's mind...
Some market stats (I'm really discussing these right now and not which is better)
And about firefox: it just hit 25% mkt share (great news!!!) Safari and chrome also posted big gains, IE down to 64% (Still way high!!!)
Well, We can't be sure of market stats. For one thing they can be debaited (not to mention the common thing people did not start using windows in millions of numbers from the day it was released ). And even if we were to trust the market reports, there are many who don't really advertise their usage of linux. I know many such organisations. They either take 3rd party support who inturn don't care to report it to foss based resources, or they have in-house people who are good enough to support linux (the easy kind of OS it is). again such people don't come back to the community unless they get some problems. So we don't have the real stats. And if linux does not hold a user share of more than 1% then I wonder why majority of the internet runs using it?
The main thing we must understand here is what I said long back in my email and I say it again. There is a proper way of orienting people and I have seen great results having mass migrations happening. And I am not doing any great magic, nor it is any rocket science. I just use psychology. Any one interested to follow this can attend the workshops or in-house seminars I do with organisations willing to shift to foss. And yes there are organisations who themselves come willingly to me asking about ways to migrate to FOSS. This itself is the sign that the popularity of FOSS is growing rappidly.
Any ways the entire issue is to stay away from further kindling the fire of misconceptions which dirty marketing has resulted into.
Firstly I will suggest for those people who would love to *market* linux to be self convinced that we indeed can and should do it. saying things like "linux is for people who deserve it " does not do any good for making it popular.
Happy hacking. Krishnakant.
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