[sf-lug] [LINUX USER QUESTIONAIRE] Linux growth  Rick Moen rick
at linuxmafia.com Thu Jul 30 18:10:01 PDT 2009  Quoting Edward
Janne (tigakub at mac.com):  > Would you help me rephrase my
questions to avoid lending the > impression that I have a zero-
sum proprietary-OS mindset? I'm not > entirely sure what I have
said to lead you to believe that.   It's sort of inherent in the
underlying assumption that levels of "adoption of the platform"
and the "user base growing fast enough" are significant
concerns, in the first place.  (If you can't see that, then I'm
sorry, but we're probably not going to get anywhere.)  We get
that from people all the time, generally leading to a polite
"You're new here, right?" reaction. ;->  E.g.:    Newcomer:  "We
all need to go out and convince all new and novice   computer
users to use Firefox."    Us:  "Why?  How's that good for us,
except in a very general sense of   slightly promoting W3C
standards?"    Newcomer:  "Bringing in hordes of new users would
help Firefox    Us:  "So