The War Is Over, and Linux Has Won

xtaski writes "Dana Blankenhorn bluntly states a reality that many have known: 'The war is over and Linux won'. With Oracle and Microsoft putting Linux in the spotlight and positioning themselves to grow with Linux. 'A new report shows that 83% of companies expect to support new workloads on Linux against 23% for Windows. ... Over two-thirds of the respondents said they will increase their use of Linux in the next year, and almost no one said the opposite.'"

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Re:There will be multiple "wars".Pearl Harbor

[Jack9]

Do you think Linux games would be pirated more than Windows games?
Or, more precisely,do you think a Linux counterpart of a game would be more pirated than the Windows version?

"Of course" is the answer to both statements.

I'm afraid that you're very much mistaken if you think that, and this is why I find this statement of yours misleading.

No, I think it's right on the money, given the linux users I know and the behaviors most exhibit. People who know how to use linux tend to be more intelligent and learned, which is why they continue to use it and get paid well for it. This means they can afford to pay for things. Before that they were pirating at home, while they were unemployed. Where do you think the OSX on PC projects come from? Clever Windows script kiddies? What about those *nix emulators and proprietary ROMs? What about those hacked together 3rd party WON servers? which certainly aren't running on Windows boxes, but are the workaround for people who wanted to avoid STEAM.

I'm sorry, but I haven't been provided an argument or reasoning to support an opposing stance.