Linux does not need to "chase"
Linux does not need to chase or emulate Microsoft or Apple. All it needs to do is "be there" and continue to improve the user experience and applications that the users want. Linux does not need to experience rapid growth in any sector to sustain or mollify investors.
Microsoft will have to trim down the prices of its operating systems and reduce the burgeoning hardware requirements necessary for a new release to operate adequately or it will begin losing market share.
The only way to stop Linux from claiming more turf incrementally is for Microsoft to litigate it or legislate it out of existence. Of course, Linux could implode all on its own due to infighting and scratching. I hope that neither of those scenarios are realized.
I do not hate Microsoft or its products, but I also do not want to have to go back using them.
Glenn Thigpen
Biting the hand that feeds IT
