I would think that if the belt had enough energy to be a useful fuel source. We would have noticed problems of space craft going boom, or at least some charge that is noticed, when they hit it.
If you are a child say 8 years old who weighs 50 lbs (an overweight child) Now as the child grows up they will still be gaining weight however when they grow up they reach a healthy weight of 150lbs. They actually did loose excess fat over time. but they gained weight.
Echnomic Math works the same way. Inflation expects to grow thus the value of the dollar is always on the average shrinking. So over 10 years your 2011 Dollar Will may worth $0.74 in 2021. So if you have 12 trillion in dept and kept that constant It would have the value of a 9 Trillion in debt in ten years. Thus it is actually reducing the amount you owe in spending power. Now that is theory... Real life is different as over the ten years the dollar could grow in price as other currencies fail, or the fact the US dollar is unnaturally low right now due to recession. And in ten years this could rebound creating new issues.
Gold and Silver as an investments during these periods are because Gold and Silver normally adjust for inflation automatically (Average over time) so Its value will remain constant over time. And you you sat on $2000 of gold in ten years you can sell it for $2700 and have the same spending power that you had in the past. Now right now people who are doing short term investments as we are in a Gold Bubble may be making a lot of money right now, and when gold bubble pops they will loose some of their investments, even if they get more out of it. But they will be getting more dollars with less spending ability after gold prices pop.
The real question is to define best days. I remember looking back to when I was a Teenager. I remember all the good times I had, without any responsibilities weighing me down. However I remember being miserable (however looking back with my adult brain, I felt I should have been able to deal a lot better then I did at the time). Then College I remember fondly having a much better time then in high school, however I remember feeling far more isolated and lonely. Then as an adult, I don't have much time for all that good time and I am very busy and I don't really remember too much good times in a few years, and having a lot of things to worry about... however my emotional state is much more happier, and fulfilled then at any other point in my life. I kinda wish I could go back in time and relive my childhood and early adult years with my current brain and coping skills, Then I would really have ad a blast years ago.
Now for Google... Starting out everything was new and exciting everyone was giving them praises, However they were more cash strapped and had to do a lot of scrounging and pushing to get every dollar in. Then they have a good flow and development was exciting however they had to make sure that they didn't make any major mistake or they would be toast. Now Google in maturing, It knows that it needs to do and has the money to do it. However a lot of the excitement and praises are going away as Google has become more predictable.
How do you expect innovation without business? Businesses are a good force in the US and the world. The problem is there are few that have gotten unproportionalt big, has too much political influence, and no longer operate like a business but a profit goal government.
We need business but we need them separate from government in both directions.
Having developed on old platforms and new ones and back to old one. You actually get much better quality out of the new stuff. We look back at the old software with pride on how well it runs, forgetting the decades of errors and problems it had in the past, and the years of effort it took to get them run at that level.
The old stuff seems to run faster but not really. Old word perfect, no realtime spell check, no fonts, bold and italics were the big features, along with multi-column and margins. The display was 80x25 and still the app crashed and you lost all your work. And took minutes to load off your floppy.
Can new developers write tighter code. Sure they are not stupid. But how much can you loose from doing it? Getting in too late in the market? Loss of multi-platform support? Hard to maintain? Vulnerable to hacking?
I just heard a report that the high frequency trading systems are easy to hack into because they have been developed for all speed... Leaving room for hacking in. As anyone has done coding knows it takes 10% to get the program to do what it needs to do and the rest to make sure humans don't cause it to do something else.
Then you don't go posting about it online... Free speech is the ability for you state your beliefs without having to worry about the government jailing you for saying it. Nothing about doing it anonymously. Free Speech is something to be valued and not used anonymously. If you are going to stand out and say something important then you should do it so people know who you are, and realize that even in a place of Free Speech there is risks.
Yes yes... Blame the political party. Because your ideology makes more sense then the other guys where your ideology differs from.
If the solutions had an easy fix don't you think we would have solved it already. The problem is a lot of these issues are not easy, even though your ideology community may make it seem so as to gather more people. If you allow complete freedom and let anyone in and out and back in again. Then chances are your freedom will be lost due to take over of an authoritarianism government. If you try to protect your freedom by tight restrictions who goes out and in and what they do, then you lost your freedom as you need big daddy to give the stamp of approval for whatever you do.
If you prevent people from doing stupid things you prevent them from doing ingenious ones too. If you open the do for people to do what they want too many stupid things will happen hindering the ability for the ingenious things to flourish.
Over Tax the rich, the rich have the resources to move away with all their money and their investments. Under Tax the rich, we loose an important revenue stream which can go to making solid improvements.
Allow full Religious freedom, then you will get a lot of crazy religions made up to allow anti-social things. Restrict Religious freedom, then you get a population doing a lot of underground activities, which will lead to additional illegal activities, as well loss of a lot of organizations who do a lot of work to help the community.
So think before you say X political party is stupid and absolutely corrupt. Because I am sure your party is just as stupid and corrupt.
That and if a company got hacked, they really don't want to let the public or the government know... Especially with a bunch of Democrats who are eyeing them like a hawk hoping for a sign to prove the government should take over them. And the government really doesn't want to do much because it is difficult to prove that it is really the government supporting this or the fact in a country with over 2 billion people a group of Citizens decided to take the law into their own hands and start the cyber war without any government support. Like in a city near me there is Private Citizen who has his car made to look like a police car as much as he legally can make it look like one, and goes around town and does a Citizen arrest of people he finds breaking the law. He sometimes will even try to pull over a car flashing his yellow lights.
More to the point, I want to prove something so I will use my judgement to balance the weights of different methodologies and different degrees and come up with the conclusion that matches my opinion.
I want to state that Windows is the best Software out there... I will weigh the fact that it has the most off the self software as very important and the rest as not important and do some research comparing off the shelf software count and boom I prove my point. But wait... I want Linux to be the best OS out there. Perhaps I will weigh costs, and open source freedom as very important and other attributes as less important and bang there is my point.
For some reason people have a hard time understanding that things doesn't need to fall in a single line of Better or Worse, Goodest(sic) and Baddest. This fall true for evolution, a lot of people incorrectly (And my Middle school classes taught it this way) as there is an order of how well evolved animals are. You have the invertebrates as the least evolved, then you have Fish then reptiles then birds and then mammals as the most evolved with Humans on the top. While some species of Octopus are quite intelligent creatures and is shown to be more intelligent then most mammals. It seems we avoid understanding the complexity in life and want to have a 2d view of the world
For articles like this I think we should dub it as a "Mathimtized" opinion.
There are a lot of other smart people all over the world making different choices... Some of them even choose to run Windows. If Linux was really that smart on User Interface you would think Linux by now would have Dominated the desktop.
You should listen to him, then you need to judge for yourself if what he is saying is Insightful or just Dribble. RMS is very intelligent, but an Utopian idealist, who looks at situations more academically then practically, has a strong distrust of opposing ideal, so he is closed minded. If you just follow RMS then you are not thinking for yourself. RMS has some good points and great ideas, and other just mindless rants to rage against "The Man". Being that RMS calls for a boycott of something doesn't mean one should follow it.
I know there is a huge bunch of people who are on the stance Patents are Evil and should be removed... I don't think so... However they need a major work over. A lot of these patents are obvious, and need to be flagged as such, we need to find more reasons to reject patents then let them pass. The ones that do pass should be the golden software, which are not obvious to even experience developers. But a lot of these patents developers can easily infringe on not because they are copping but because a situation came up were it seemed to be the best solution to the problem, and may not have seen it before and just coded it because it needed to be coded.
For the most part, it wasn't about.Net but the next version of visual studio. And C# and VB.net as a programming language. When.net came out most apps were windows only. Web apps were skoffed at as toys for limited remote access. Visual studio 6 was starting to get aged. And there was no real visual studio 7 to replace it. Only visual studio.net. So they upgraded to keep their apps to look good for xp and longhorn, which became vista. C# isn't a horable language. In some ways it is much cleaner then Java. But for most developers if Microsoft gave them a choice for a direct compile or.net runtime. They will go with direct compile.
Yes I know Peter Parker at the time was suppose to be the stereotypical outcast. And now they want to revamp what is considered an outcast. But it seems to me except for creating a New person to take the identity why don't you create a new comic hero. I can deal with mutable green lanterns. And Batman passing the touch to a new generation. But Flashes? Spider Mans?... Why is is so after your hero dies someone else just happens to get the odd occurrence and gives them similar super powers and happens to take the departed hero's name. Whats next a new Question.
Why yes it is evolution. If the drugs don't kill off the kids, the adults are better and stronger, and will breed new kids who can multi-task even when dosed with large amounts of drugs. We are solving the problem of drunk driving one generation at a time. In a hundred years a person could be drunk to the point of death but have enough mental facility to drive a car safely.
It seems like a lot of work to be a fake. To give peoples browser preferences and their average intelligence doesn't really prove anything useful. As the only thing I could think of would be to poke fun at Microsoft and say Yes you have the higher market share but you got the market share of idiots. It is not like if you switch browsers you will become smarter.
Apple Servers are just for the Ultimate Fanboi's or for the small Mac Only shop. They really don't offer much of a real advantage. You can get a standard server with Linux and it probably will run much better.
I Prefer postgresql over MySQL myself... However having used both MySQL isn't bad, it is just different... MySQL does have some nice commands that makes doing some rather common actions much easier. But Postgresql has a lot more raw power, and customization. I have worked with people who are Die Hard MySQL Fans and you hear complaining when using Postgresql that it doesn't do this or it doesn't do that, and I need to write a stored function to do this...
A big one that is popular is the Replace INTO command in MySQL where it works as both as an Insert or an Update. You can make fare arguments against it, but there are a lot of cases where the REPLACE INTO feature is really nice. And not having to make your own is useful.
When Franklin said this, anonymous free speech was unheard of... Thus why the right to free speech is so essential. Because we should be able to say things that makes other people/governments/organizations angry, without the fear that we are going to get locked up, and put in jail as enemy of the state. But free speech has always came with a price, when you said something you are still at risk of people disagreeing with you or worse agreeing with you and following you, thus you need to stop and rethink all those consequences of what you said and unable to change your mind and not seem like a hypocritical SOB. Today's Anonymous speech in many ways is not free speech, but just open riot. 99.9999% of what comes out is just the party line, or the same old dribble said over and over again in the vain attempt to make the person who disagree with you somehow change their position. It is neither new, insightful, or though provoking. It is just a mob mentality hoping who ever yells the loudest will win. This Debt debate is a prime example, We got Ultra Conservatives, and Ultra Liberals who no longer think but just follow the party line. And they got in power because of the Other Ultra Liberals and Ultra Conservatives are yelling so much that it makes them feel justified to be uncompromising.
GPL3 is in response to companies that found a way to make money and secure a market using GPL2 technology. I would have been happier if GPL3 stated that if you put your patented code in a GPL program you are agreeing to allow you patent free and unencumbered use in all GNU/GNU Compatible code.
I have seen this case. It is not for infinite loops but just too long to process. I have seen it before in my preoptimized code. Usually when I give java script too much data.
Free Software effect on the economy isn't that straight forward. What you loose in money flow you gain in your business ability to grow, and expand. What free software did do, is make it hard for Software Companies to product new Software. Not all software business models work on the RMS Approved way of making money with Free Software. If your product is easy to use yet powerful, consulting services is out of the question, If your product is small in size, charging for shipping and material doesn't work as well. Some software business will work best if they focus on building the software and someone pays money for the right to use it. But the problem with free software alternatives is that these companies will need come up with a huge advantage over the alternative for it to succeed. But as I said before that is too simplistic of a view... Because such software companies can alter their program to be one of those newfangled "Cloud" programs where people will just pay for the rights to use it, with using existing free software they can do this much more quickly.
Software License Costs are least of a companies concerns. And if you look in terms of IT Spending you actually see Closed Source Apple and Cloud services coming in full force.
Linux and Free BDS may be cheap in terms of License cost... However if you are going to invest in a business level production system, The difference between $2k for Windows Servers and 0 For Linux is a line item when you are dealing with 30-50k systems. Then it comes down to your current employees skill sets... Besides the popular opinion, companies actually don't like to lay off employees, if they can help it. So if they have a Windows Shop they are going to keep the Windows Administrators (If they can learn or already know Linux is immaterial, as it would be risky to check them on that as their windows admin skills are a known quantity).
What is big now is Cloud, and Thin Clients (Which are not called thin clients). We are seeing companies go to the cloud for many of their non-operational tasks (email, web hosting, file storage...) and more use of Mobile Phones, iPad/tables, Net Books... as a Thin Client host. Because it saves them the upfront cost of installing more expensive hardware and hiring more admins to keep track of these servers for tasks that are not key to business operation.
Now once the economy picks up I can see the Cloud computing becoming less prevalent, because ultimately people want full control of their stuff, and cloud services are only more affordable to a point where it becomes cheaper to host it yourself.
It isn't that Linux is Bad or inferior heck Linux hosts much of those Cloud services. But Software License costs isn't the big savings that companies need.
The year of Linux on the Desktop will be the Year the Desktop is irrelevant.
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I would think that if the belt had enough energy to be a useful fuel source. We would have noticed problems of space craft going boom, or at least some charge that is noticed, when they hit it.
If you are a child say 8 years old who weighs 50 lbs (an overweight child)
Now as the child grows up they will still be gaining weight however when they grow up they reach a healthy weight of 150lbs. They actually did loose excess fat over time. but they gained weight.
Echnomic Math works the same way. Inflation expects to grow thus the value of the dollar is always on the average shrinking.
So over 10 years your 2011 Dollar Will may worth $0.74 in 2021. So if you have 12 trillion in dept and kept that constant It would have the value of a 9 Trillion in debt in ten years. Thus it is actually reducing the amount you owe in spending power.
Now that is theory... Real life is different as over the ten years the dollar could grow in price as other currencies fail, or the fact the US dollar is unnaturally low right now due to recession. And in ten years this could rebound creating new issues.
Gold and Silver as an investments during these periods are because Gold and Silver normally adjust for inflation automatically (Average over time) so Its value will remain constant over time. And you you sat on $2000 of gold in ten years you can sell it for $2700 and have the same spending power that you had in the past. Now right now people who are doing short term investments as we are in a Gold Bubble may be making a lot of money right now, and when gold bubble pops they will loose some of their investments, even if they get more out of it. But they will be getting more dollars with less spending ability after gold prices pop.
The real question is to define best days.
I remember looking back to when I was a Teenager. I remember all the good times I had, without any responsibilities weighing me down. However I remember being miserable (however looking back with my adult brain, I felt I should have been able to deal a lot better then I did at the time). Then College I remember fondly having a much better time then in high school, however I remember feeling far more isolated and lonely. Then as an adult, I don't have much time for all that good time and I am very busy and I don't really remember too much good times in a few years, and having a lot of things to worry about... however my emotional state is much more happier, and fulfilled then at any other point in my life.
I kinda wish I could go back in time and relive my childhood and early adult years with my current brain and coping skills, Then I would really have ad a blast years ago.
Now for Google... Starting out everything was new and exciting everyone was giving them praises, However they were more cash strapped and had to do a lot of scrounging and pushing to get every dollar in. Then they have a good flow and development was exciting however they had to make sure that they didn't make any major mistake or they would be toast. Now Google in maturing, It knows that it needs to do and has the money to do it. However a lot of the excitement and praises are going away as Google has become more predictable.
How do you expect innovation without business? Businesses are a good force in the US and the world. The problem is there are few that have gotten unproportionalt big, has too much political influence, and no longer operate like a business but a profit goal government.
We need business but we need them separate from government in both directions.
Having developed on old platforms and new ones and back to old one. You actually get much better quality out of the new stuff. We look back at the old software with pride on how well it runs, forgetting the decades of errors and problems it had in the past, and the years of effort it took to get them run at that level.
The old stuff seems to run faster but not really. Old word perfect, no realtime spell check, no fonts, bold and italics were the big features, along with multi-column and margins. The display was 80x25 and still the app crashed and you lost all your work. And took minutes to load off your floppy.
Can new developers write tighter code. Sure they are not stupid. But how much can you loose from doing it? Getting in too late in the market? Loss of multi-platform support? Hard to maintain? Vulnerable to hacking?
I just heard a report that the high frequency trading systems are easy to hack into because they have been developed for all speed... Leaving room for hacking in. As anyone has done coding knows it takes 10% to get the program to do what it needs to do and the rest to make sure humans don't cause it to do something else.
Then you don't go posting about it online...
Free speech is the ability for you state your beliefs without having to worry about the government jailing you for saying it. Nothing about doing it anonymously. Free Speech is something to be valued and not used anonymously. If you are going to stand out and say something important then you should do it so people know who you are, and realize that even in a place of Free Speech there is risks.
Yes yes... Blame the political party. Because your ideology makes more sense then the other guys where your ideology differs from.
If the solutions had an easy fix don't you think we would have solved it already. The problem is a lot of these issues are not easy, even though your ideology community may make it seem so as to gather more people.
If you allow complete freedom and let anyone in and out and back in again. Then chances are your freedom will be lost due to take over of an authoritarianism government.
If you try to protect your freedom by tight restrictions who goes out and in and what they do, then you lost your freedom as you need big daddy to give the stamp of approval for whatever you do.
If you prevent people from doing stupid things you prevent them from doing ingenious ones too.
If you open the do for people to do what they want too many stupid things will happen hindering the ability for the ingenious things to flourish.
Over Tax the rich, the rich have the resources to move away with all their money and their investments.
Under Tax the rich, we loose an important revenue stream which can go to making solid improvements.
Allow full Religious freedom, then you will get a lot of crazy religions made up to allow anti-social things.
Restrict Religious freedom, then you get a population doing a lot of underground activities, which will lead to additional illegal activities, as well loss of a lot of organizations who do a lot of work to help the community.
So think before you say X political party is stupid and absolutely corrupt. Because I am sure your party is just as stupid and corrupt.
That and if a company got hacked, they really don't want to let the public or the government know... Especially with a bunch of Democrats who are eyeing them like a hawk hoping for a sign to prove the government should take over them.
And the government really doesn't want to do much because it is difficult to prove that it is really the government supporting this or the fact in a country with over 2 billion people a group of Citizens decided to take the law into their own hands and start the cyber war without any government support. Like in a city near me there is Private Citizen who has his car made to look like a police car as much as he legally can make it look like one, and goes around town and does a Citizen arrest of people he finds breaking the law. He sometimes will even try to pull over a car flashing his yellow lights.
More to the point, I want to prove something so I will use my judgement to balance the weights of different methodologies and different degrees and come up with the conclusion that matches my opinion.
I want to state that Windows is the best Software out there... I will weigh the fact that it has the most off the self software as very important and the rest as not important and do some research comparing off the shelf software count and boom I prove my point.
But wait... I want Linux to be the best OS out there. Perhaps I will weigh costs, and open source freedom as very important and other attributes as less important and bang there is my point.
For some reason people have a hard time understanding that things doesn't need to fall in a single line of Better or Worse, Goodest(sic) and Baddest. This fall true for evolution, a lot of people incorrectly (And my Middle school classes taught it this way) as there is an order of how well evolved animals are. You have the invertebrates as the least evolved, then you have Fish then reptiles then birds and then mammals as the most evolved with Humans on the top. While some species of Octopus are quite intelligent creatures and is shown to be more intelligent then most mammals. It seems we avoid understanding the complexity in life and want to have a 2d view of the world
For articles like this I think we should dub it as a "Mathimtized" opinion.
A positive water source seems like a good guess to me... Now if we only had a space craft to get there.
So what?
There are a lot of other smart people all over the world making different choices... Some of them even choose to run Windows.
If Linux was really that smart on User Interface you would think Linux by now would have Dominated the desktop.
You should listen to him, then you need to judge for yourself if what he is saying is Insightful or just Dribble.
RMS is very intelligent, but an Utopian idealist, who looks at situations more academically then practically, has a strong distrust of opposing ideal, so he is closed minded.
If you just follow RMS then you are not thinking for yourself. RMS has some good points and great ideas, and other just mindless rants to rage against "The Man".
Being that RMS calls for a boycott of something doesn't mean one should follow it.
I know there is a huge bunch of people who are on the stance Patents are Evil and should be removed... I don't think so... However they need a major work over. A lot of these patents are obvious, and need to be flagged as such, we need to find more reasons to reject patents then let them pass. The ones that do pass should be the golden software, which are not obvious to even experience developers. But a lot of these patents developers can easily infringe on not because they are copping but because a situation came up were it seemed to be the best solution to the problem, and may not have seen it before and just coded it because it needed to be coded.
For the most part, it wasn't about .Net but the next version of visual studio. And C# and VB.net as a programming language. .net came out most apps were windows only. Web apps were skoffed at as toys for limited remote access. Visual studio 6 was starting to get aged. And there was no real visual studio 7 to replace it. Only visual studio.net. So they upgraded to keep their apps to look good for xp and longhorn, which became vista. C# isn't a horable language. In some ways it is much cleaner then Java. .net runtime. They will go with direct compile.
When
But for most developers if Microsoft gave them a choice for a direct compile or
But have you been bitten by a radioactive spider?
Yes I know Peter Parker at the time was suppose to be the stereotypical outcast. And now they want to revamp what is considered an outcast. But it seems to me except for creating a New person to take the identity why don't you create a new comic hero.
I can deal with mutable green lanterns. And Batman passing the touch to a new generation. But Flashes? Spider Mans?... Why is is so after your hero dies someone else just happens to get the odd occurrence and gives them similar super powers and happens to take the departed hero's name. Whats next a new Question.
Why yes it is evolution. If the drugs don't kill off the kids, the adults are better and stronger, and will breed new kids who can multi-task even when dosed with large amounts of drugs. We are solving the problem of drunk driving one generation at a time. In a hundred years a person could be drunk to the point of death but have enough mental facility to drive a car safely.
Yes, I havn't used Google+ because I have a Google App account and I really don't want to have an other gmail account for the sake using G+.
It seems like a lot of work to be a fake. To give peoples browser preferences and their average intelligence doesn't really prove anything useful. As the only thing I could think of would be to poke fun at Microsoft and say Yes you have the higher market share but you got the market share of idiots. It is not like if you switch browsers you will become smarter.
Apple Servers are just for the Ultimate Fanboi's or for the small Mac Only shop.
They really don't offer much of a real advantage. You can get a standard server with Linux and it probably will run much better.
I Prefer postgresql over MySQL myself... However having used both MySQL isn't bad, it is just different... MySQL does have some nice commands that makes doing some rather common actions much easier. But Postgresql has a lot more raw power, and customization. I have worked with people who are Die Hard MySQL Fans and you hear complaining when using Postgresql that it doesn't do this or it doesn't do that, and I need to write a stored function to do this...
A big one that is popular is the Replace INTO command in MySQL where it works as both as an Insert or an Update. You can make fare arguments against it, but there are a lot of cases where the REPLACE INTO feature is really nice. And not having to make your own is useful.
When Franklin said this, anonymous free speech was unheard of... Thus why the right to free speech is so essential. Because we should be able to say things that makes other people/governments/organizations angry, without the fear that we are going to get locked up, and put in jail as enemy of the state. But free speech has always came with a price, when you said something you are still at risk of people disagreeing with you or worse agreeing with you and following you, thus you need to stop and rethink all those consequences of what you said and unable to change your mind and not seem like a hypocritical SOB.
Today's Anonymous speech in many ways is not free speech, but just open riot. 99.9999% of what comes out is just the party line, or the same old dribble said over and over again in the vain attempt to make the person who disagree with you somehow change their position. It is neither new, insightful, or though provoking. It is just a mob mentality hoping who ever yells the loudest will win.
This Debt debate is a prime example, We got Ultra Conservatives, and Ultra Liberals who no longer think but just follow the party line. And they got in power because of the Other Ultra Liberals and Ultra Conservatives are yelling so much that it makes them feel justified to be uncompromising.
GPL3 is in response to companies that found a way to make money and secure a market using GPL2 technology. I would have been happier if GPL3 stated that if you put your patented code in a GPL program you are agreeing to allow you patent free and unencumbered use in all GNU/GNU Compatible code.
I have seen this case. It is not for infinite loops but just too long to process. I have seen it before in my preoptimized code. Usually when I give java script too much data.
Free Software effect on the economy isn't that straight forward. What you loose in money flow you gain in your business ability to grow, and expand.
What free software did do, is make it hard for Software Companies to product new Software. Not all software business models work on the RMS Approved way of making money with Free Software. If your product is easy to use yet powerful, consulting services is out of the question, If your product is small in size, charging for shipping and material doesn't work as well. Some software business will work best if they focus on building the software and someone pays money for the right to use it. But the problem with free software alternatives is that these companies will need come up with a huge advantage over the alternative for it to succeed.
But as I said before that is too simplistic of a view... Because such software companies can alter their program to be one of those newfangled "Cloud" programs where people will just pay for the rights to use it, with using existing free software they can do this much more quickly.
Software License Costs are least of a companies concerns. And if you look in terms of IT Spending you actually see Closed Source Apple and Cloud services coming in full force.
Linux and Free BDS may be cheap in terms of License cost... However if you are going to invest in a business level production system, The difference between $2k for Windows Servers and 0 For Linux is a line item when you are dealing with 30-50k systems. Then it comes down to your current employees skill sets... Besides the popular opinion, companies actually don't like to lay off employees, if they can help it. So if they have a Windows Shop they are going to keep the Windows Administrators (If they can learn or already know Linux is immaterial, as it would be risky to check them on that as their windows admin skills are a known quantity).
What is big now is Cloud, and Thin Clients (Which are not called thin clients). We are seeing companies go to the cloud for many of their non-operational tasks (email, web hosting, file storage...) and more use of Mobile Phones, iPad/tables, Net Books... as a Thin Client host. Because it saves them the upfront cost of installing more expensive hardware and hiring more admins to keep track of these servers for tasks that are not key to business operation.
Now once the economy picks up I can see the Cloud computing becoming less prevalent, because ultimately people want full control of their stuff, and cloud services are only more affordable to a point where it becomes cheaper to host it yourself.
It isn't that Linux is Bad or inferior heck Linux hosts much of those Cloud services. But Software License costs isn't the big savings that companies need.
The year of Linux on the Desktop will be the Year the Desktop is irrelevant.