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On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 20:07 +0100, Hartmut Noack wrote:

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> Am 13.03.2013 13:53, schrieb Louigi Verona:

> > Patrick,

> >

> > 1. if you have other numbers, please post them, with sources.

> >

> > 2. I cannot agree that Android can be considered to be part of Linux

> > Desktop.

>

> Android is Googles OS with a Linux-Kernel, so is ChromeOS. And it has no

> real impact regarding issues like hardware-support because Android does

> not need to run on PC-Hardware, it does not even have a real USB-port.

>

> So some may ask: But it is still some sort of Linux no? Does that not

> mean, that Linux in general has arrived on the markets to get its share?

>

> It has not, nobody who speaks about Android to sell it, mentions Linux.

>

> Because Android is a product and more than 90% of the money, that Google

> spends to develop Android as a product is for marketing. Names matter in

> marketing, more than much else. Android is the brand to be pushed on the

> market, nothing else.

>

> Last time I checked, Canonical did the same about Ubuntu. End-user

> oriented media adapts that gratefully, they speak about Ubuntu and many

> do not even mention Linux in articles about Canonicals Distro. The money

> to promote Ubuntu is spent to promote Ubuntu, nothing else. This is, how

> marketing for end-users/consumers works.

>

> Quality does not sell, stability does not sell, freedom does not sell at

> all -- marketing does.

>

> Real bad quality and stability and maybe even severe lack of respect for

> the user can, in some cases, contradict marketing to some extent. But

> only, if there is an alternative, that is pushed to the market real hard

> with billions of Dollars behind it.

>

> MacOSX is such a competitor and it comes with better quality so nobody

> is bothered too much by the fact, that it slaps the face of the user

> even harder than Microsoft. Android is another and Ubuntu is a dwarf- if

> not microscopic player in that ring.

>

> Imagine, all the devs, that write free software *would* be payed

> decently for their good work. Sum up all the salaries and apply a

> multiplicator such as 100 and you got the figure needed to really push

> GNU/Linux on the market.

101% ACK
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