Actually people who write these sorts of articles don't really seem to understand Linux or the Linux community in general. While there is always a bit of sniping between various factions within the community in the end it only serves to make Linux better.

As 'Linux' is actually only the kernel, and each GNU/Linux 'flavor' is in essence a different although related operating system, having different operating systems targeting specific users or niches is hardly a threat to the survival of Linux overall and in fact has led to a great many improvements in GNU/Linux operating systems in recent years.

There will always be differences of opinion between the purists, the practical, and the mercenary. I personally think it's a good thing as that's about as far from a monopoly as one can get.

One major flaw of thought among some people, particularly those of the author, is that they seem to think that the goal of the Linux community is to develop a replacement or competition for MS. Although there is a small group who think this way, the majority of the Linux community simply couldn't care less about this and aren't at all concerned with MS one way or the other. We each have our favorite 'flavor' of Linux, mine being Slackware Linux, and many of us dabble with others, but in the end developing something to compete with MS simply isn't a factor at all.

Does anyone know the numbers of computers that are running Linux? Since it's open source I wonder if anyone is able to track that sort of thing?  

And there's me. And between myself, Mason, and BlueDev, we're the only ones that really matter.

Oh yeah! Sorry to forget you, Gid. So there's four of us rockin' Linux lovers here . . .

It's 'cuz you don't post often enough, XX. That makes five.

Oh come on........I even had forgotten I made this post. 

Ah...but not the oldest [though it's close]...

The butler did it....

 

Not a lot.  Linux is still around.....and still being used by guys in propeller hats.

And in spite of all recent attempts by MS to bugger-up Windows the market share is still 'curiosity-level'...

Yeah, nothing attracts flies like a necrothread.

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Nah, it's just the smell !

And you notice how it's usually the same old farts who respond every time a necrothread resurfaces?

Now I'm not suggesting anything here... like it could just be a coincidence and the two aren't connected.

Though if anybody notices the smell of sheep, well we all know who brought that.

Well hat's your story and I guess you're sticking to it.    Mine is: time goes so much faster the older you get, so it's not as necro to me as it would be to the yoing uns around here... and regardless of time, it's so hard these days to remember if I've seen a thread before or not.

Of course, we all know that a positive or negative correlation between two things is definite and irrefutable proof that of a causal relationship between them.  One caused the other.  Ask any member of the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster for lots of charts proving this. 

OH, real necrothreads on the tv show : 'the Strain.'