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To: DanD who wrote (92436)	2/22/2010 1:22:34 PM
From: rnsmth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

<Linux has done quite well in server markets. > But the discussion is about the smartphone market, right? I don't think consumers (for the most part) want to engage in geekfests about which distro is better, particularly since their wireless company or hardware may or may not support it or make it available to them.

To: DanD who wrote (92436)	2/22/2010 2:18:19 PM
From: Cogito	4 Recommendations Respond to of 213177

>>Linux has done quite well in server markets. << That's because servers are run by IT guys, who get paid to put in the time it takes to keep Linux up to date, and to figure out solutions to integration issues that come up with them. Consumers, even those who grew up with technology, are mostly uninterested in performing anything but the most basic and at least semi-automatic maintenance on their computers. Or on the smartphones, for that matter. Even asking them to click a button to say "OK" to a software update is sometimes too much. They certainly don't want to have to figure out which version of a program they need to download based on which flavor of an operating system they are running. For those reasons, among others, Linux hasn't caught on for desktop computers, and probably won't.