On Monday 04 August 2003 12:48, Tarquin Mills wrote:
Though some may argue that the shrinking user of base of Mac OS [snip]
Does anyone have data to support this, are users really migrating away from Mac ? I find that hard to believe considering the rather nifty new G5's, the very popular Powerbooks plus OS X is getting better with every release.
I have meet a few Mac users who were anti OS X, but generally once they have actually used it for a month or so and have got used to the differences they end up prefering it.
If free software wants to hit the big time then it needs a friendly OS, perhaps a free version of Windows.
A free version of Windows, to home users Windows is free ! Those that didn't get forced into buying it when they bought their PC end up with a pirate copy, Piracy made MS what they are today.
To business users if it came from one vendor (rather than a community) then they would never go for it, too worried that MS would eat up that vendor and they'd be left out in the cold damp hell of an unsupported properitary product.