Originally posted by V!NCENT
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My point is: neither Linux, nor even Mac and Linux platforms combined are a threat for Windows domination on desktop in foreseeable future.
I avoided talking from my personal POV, but the way I see it is that open-source software, while frequently tried, is less often relied upon for business usage. By its nature, FOSS often has "no owner", and that means that there's no single responsible entity that you can sue in case something breaks ;-) (and no one to crunch during sleepless nights fixing bugs for you either).
E.g. in game development, industry where I work, commercial tools rule everything. Even among SCMs, arguably the easiest area of FOSS tools to excel at, commercial Perforce is still the king, because even as of today, you can't add 50+ GB of data to git repository - welcome to 2010...
And don't even get me started on gcc and its quality... Linus has already well said on that topic...
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