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Bad childhood experience much?

Did someone beat you up with a Linux install disk when you were a child or something? You seem to have a real chip on your shoulder about this!

> What dream world do people live in when they think
> open source is taking off

Maybe you need to wake up from your nightmare and check out reality .. Linux and OSS is taking a rapid hold in both the public and private sector. It's not a matter of debate, people are using it and are displacing Microsoft installations to do so.

> It's up there with the Cornish Independance party when
> it comes to relevance in the real world.

Then I guess it is a matter of perception then. To those in the Cornish Independence Party, it is very relevant. To those outside Cornwall, it isn't. If you live in a world immediately encircled by Microsoft software, then you actually have to look around to see the truth. If you can't bring yourself to do that for some reason, then you won't see it.

> Microsoft made record profits

.. on a function (the OS) that has been done and done and done, so why do we need to keep paying them for it. Imagine if half the cost of your car was royalties to the inventor of the internal combustion engine ...

> the % of PC's sold that have it on is sitll 95% ,
> Macs 5% Linux 0%

I would ask you to validate those figures if I wanted to embarrass you. You completely missed the chunk of the market that comes with no OS at all. You also miss the chunk that is sold with Windows and then cleaned off and reinstalled with something else. The vendors would be happy to sell them bare metal but Big Bill has them tied down to simply tax every machine sold, with or without Windows.

> And yes consumers pay for things, if you don't pay you
> don't count Linux is nothing more than a cult

Nothing really to debate on that point. Debate and discussion requires something of substance to counter. Nothing to go at in that one. You don't like Linux for some deep seated psychological reason, so you have mapped it out of your reality and then reinforced that blind prejudice with pejorative terms like "Cult".

> Biggest single user of Microsoft products in the world,
> its the NHS 1.3 million licence for 6 years

Mmm .. great value for money that isn't. The bulk of the terminals could just as easily be running Linux as Windows, but we, the tax paying general public, have to send our money across the pond to do something that could just as soon be free.

We know you don't like Linux .. which is your choice of course. I'm afraid though, that doesn't mean you can just map it out of existence. It *does* exist. People *are* using it every day at work. Yes, currently, Microsoft has the bulk of the market share, but the official figures *do* show that that share is shrinking.

History teaches us that when market share starts to fall in the IT industry, it doesn't turn round again, it just keeps on falling.

So, other than "Waah waah, Linux is a poo pants" is there anything coherent to come, or are we done here?

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