A Harvard Study which uses formal economic modelling to determine "Will OSS ever displace traditional software from its market leadership position?" came to a (not so?) surprising result. Linux is likely to remain second best as long as Microsoft has a first mover advantage.
On Monday 11 September 2006 01:03 pm, Sujeet Bhatt wrote:
A Harvard Study which uses formal economic modelling to determine "Will OSS ever displace traditional software from its market leadership position?" came to a (not so?) surprising result. Linux is likely to remain second best as long as Microsoft has a first mover advantage.
which means that M$ is a lost case already since they dont have a 64bit os. The problem with disruptive technologies is that there are no known models to predict with any reasonable accuracy future outcomes. The biggest fallacy in the article is relying on present market behaviour as a template. Nonetheless avery interesting article and as the authors say we can learn.
so afterall linux is at least at the second position right now. as jtd rightly said it is really difficult to predict what will happen. don't forget gentelman, microsoft is just one company "licensing" windows and gnu/ linux is from multiple brans and they don't "license" linux for use, they give you full rights. so in the battle of one vs many, I don't think it needs to be clearified who will win? further more the article has given possibilities from both the sides as how the opponent can be driven out of market. the possibilities for linux community driving out windows are workable and can happen. but the possible ideas given to ms for doing the same only bring me to one common saying. and I am dedicating it to M$ "dear bil, it is easy to fool some people for all the time and all people for some time, but impossible to fool all the people for all the time". I don't find how will ms ever keep a grip on the basis of inducing "fear, uncertainty and doubt (fud)" in the minds of users. yes, it can work for some time but not all the time. Krishnakant.
Just use the new version of OpenLX Linux and the experience will be of "better than having it at No.1"
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 16:44 +0530, krishnakant Mane wrote:
so afterall linux is at least at the second position right now. as jtd rightly said it is really difficult to predict what will happen. don't forget gentelman, microsoft is just one company "licensing" windows and gnu/ linux is from multiple brans and they don't "license" linux for use, they give you full rights. so in the battle of one vs many, I don't think it needs to be clearified who will win? further more the article has given possibilities from both the sides as how the opponent can be driven out of market. the possibilities for linux community driving out windows are workable and can happen. but the possible ideas given to ms for doing the same only bring me to one common saying. and I am dedicating it to M$ "dear bil, it is easy to fool some people for all the time and all people for some time, but impossible to fool all the people for all the time". I don't find how will ms ever keep a grip on the basis of inducing "fear, uncertainty and doubt (fud)" in the minds of users. yes, it can work for some time but not all the time. Krishnakant.
On Monday 11 September 2006 07:33, Sujeet Bhatt wrote:
A Harvard Study which uses formal economic modelling to determine "Will OSS ever displace traditional software from its market leadership position?" came to a (not so?) surprising result. Linux is likely to remain second best as long as Microsoft has a first mover advantage.
ummm...Harvard sucks? :) Only time will tell. No use debating what might the future be :P
They never had any 'first mover advantage". anyway, have a look at the new version of OpenLX Linux (due for launch next week) and u will stop considering others at all.
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 13:03 +0530, Sujeet Bhatt wrote:
A Harvard Study which uses formal economic modelling to determine "Will OSS ever displace traditional software from its market leadership position?" came to a (not so?) surprising result. Linux is likely to remain second best as long as Microsoft has a first mover advantage.