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Posted Sep 12, 2006 16:27 UTC (Tue) by josh_stern (guest, #4868)
In reply to: more information by gdt
Parent article: Windows will beat Linux threat, say academics (TechWorld)

Agree. In another post I remarked on that problem and the problem that the model, if true, would have predicted Linux never rise to its current market share. One further issue is that part of the models assumption is that community based software improvement can play a significant role on MS-Windows as well as Linux and, while I don't question this premise per se, I question whether relying on a lot of community-based software for the MS-Windows platform wouldn't have the effect of further reducing the perception that MS-Win is a more valuable OS - another state assumption the model depends on. Let's look at an example of this in reality: on the one hand, having Firefox/Thunderbird and OpenOffice for MS-Win adds rational value to the platform, but on the other, users knowledge that same working software is available for them on Linux diminishes their perception of a value gap.

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