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Linux Replacing Windows More Than Unix

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the tastes-so-good-shouldn't-you-switch dept.

LordNimon writes "Over the past couple years, we've been hearing several Linux migration stories, but they have been mostly migration from proprietary Unix systems rather than from Windows. Well, this story on News.com indicates otherwise: of the migrations, 24% were from Unix, but 31% were from Windows. Sounds promising."

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  1. Where are the rest coming from? by D.A.+Zollinger · · Score: 0, Redundant

    24% from Unix, 31% from Windows - That only makes up 55% of the migrations to linux. Where are the other 45% of migrations coming from?

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  2. Linux Replacing (sic) Windows more than Unix by SkewlD00d · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The efforts of Lindows and WineX seem to be counter-OSS, big businesses seem more interested in exploiting OSS than actually giving back to the community. Granted, there are a few businesses that help the OSS movement, but the carrier-class and business apps/server manufacturers are interested only in what OSS can get them for free, without ever releasing any source or adding patches to the community. Then there's the shizters out there that claim to be OSS that have these so-called Open Licenses (*cough* Apple) that are really trying to use code for free. And there are the projects that were open source and free (*cough* MySQL) that turn into payware developed by the community. These cases really show the need to assignment copyright over to the FSF, so that maintainers/contributors dont destroy great OSS projects.

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  3. Re:Linux particularly replacing Windows NT and 2k by dpt · · Score: -1, Redundant

    There are powerful scripting tools available for the Windows platform. Of course, to know about them, and use them, you'd have to be more knowledgeable than say... you.

    Yes, you're more knowledgable about Windows stuff. I'm sure cleaners are also more knowledgeable about toilet brushes. Since I'll never be doing Windows, since I need a proper programming environment, I guess I miss out on the junk that are "batch" files.

    I wonder why MS are funding the port of Perl to Windows ... could it be that they realize they can't write a decent scripting language themselves? It's a suprisingly sensible move. Who would have guessed?