> Mac OS has greater market share and a faster rate of adoption on the desktop given any comparable time frame compared to Linux on the desktop.
Citation needed.
Oh, eighty-seven, you are a precious child.
>http://marketshare.hitslink.com/ measures their information by looking at their advertisement logs. I cannot see any reason to believe that they are representative, you failure.
Ahhh the easiest Internet debate technique. Request source then reject it. Please do name some acceptable sources.
> Ahhh the easiest Internet debate technique. Request source then reject it. Please do name some acceptable sources.
No, the easiest internet debate technique is to make a vacuous claim like "forking is always wrong" and refuse to back it up with facts or arguments.
>No, the easiest internet debate technique is to make a vacuous claim like "forking is always wrong" and refuse to back it up with facts or arguments.
You did that by pointing out forks that either unforked, were branches instead of forks or the developers changed something to make it so they couldn't fork it.
> I said that MSes server OS share is growing relative to Linux.
And after some arm twisting, we find you're quoting The Gartner group. Meanwhile, IDC's numbers disagree.
>It's obviously not clear who's share of what is growing because there are so many different things to measure here.
Yeah, because measuring the number of OSes servers are running is too inconvenient.
> Yeah, because measuring the number of OSes servers are running is too inconvenient.
Do that.
You guys are so intelligent you'll derail a thread to have an argument. About how much more intelligent you are than the other guys doing the same stupid thing.
For shame.