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Mozilla Opens Thunderbird Email Subsidiary
alphadogg is one of several readers to note the opening of the Mozilla Foundation's new subsidiary, Mozilla Messaging, charged with developing the free, open source Thunderbird email software. Mozilla Messaging will initially focus on Thunderbird 3, which aims at improving several aspects of the software, including integrated calendaring and better search. ZDNet UK's coverage leads with the interest the new organization has in developing instant-messaging software.
In the January W3Schools OS Platform Stats Vista is poised to overtake OSX and Linux combined in a month or two.
It could take a little longer, but that scarcely matters.
The trend line for Linux is as flat as the Dakota prairies. 1% growth client-side in five years.
The Net Applications stats you quote show Linux with a 0.67% market share. Pretty much where the Intel exec would place it.
To experience the Year of Linux. the geek needs a time warp, suspended animation. He needs to be revived as "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century."
Obviously, technical superiority and free-ness are not good enough reasons to get everyone to switch over
It is time the geek stopped looking for easy answers in catch phrases like "lock-in," or "convicted monopolist." If his world is defined by a conflict between the cathedral and the bazaar, why is it that Microsoft is so successful on the street?
It is time the geek stopped looking for a government bail-out.
Whether from the bureaucracy of the EU - where Microsoft pays its hundred million dollar fines and still sees 20% growth - or from the African education minister who is expected to pick up the tab for one million XO laptops.
Microsoft built its empire from the ground-up. Too often the geek builds top-down. He thinks in terms of the enterprise distribution - the government mandate - that will magically drive small business and home users to Linux.