Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Let's Take Year Of The Linux Desktop Seriously" video.

  1. A “market” is where people trade things with some kind of economic value, e.g. money. People downloading and using Free software does not itself create a “market”, so a phrase like “market share” is meaningless.
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  2. Their attempt to extinguish Linux was a complete failure. The whole “Linux is a cancer” claim and their “Get the Facts” campaign went down like a lead balloon. So now, they are trying to turn Windows into Linux, with WSL, and open-sourcing some of their own tools and porting them to Linux. Meanwhile, the quality of the Windows OS itself continues to go downhill.
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  3. I see “desktop” as a concept created by the marketing departments of proprietary platforms. They are careful to distinguish “desktop” from “server” by carefully excising anything resembling “server”-style functionality from their “desktop” products, precisely so they can sell the “server” ones at a higher price. Linux tramples all over this distinction. That’s why it is best called a “workstation” platform, with both “desktop” and “server” functionality rolled into one. So when is the year of the Linux “workstation”? I’ve got news for you: Linux has been king of the workstation market since the last of the Unix workstations went extinct. That’s about two decades ago.
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