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Piracy could be helping Windows' marketshare
A new paper - written by Norwegian economics researcher, Arne Rogde Gramstad - suggests that piracy could be increasing Windows' marketshare. His findings suggest that if piracy were to vanish tomorrow, the amount of people using Linux would increase by 50-65%. This increase would lead to Linux having a 1.5-1.65% usage share (currently around 1%) in an average country. Thanks to piracy, Windows is actually seeing more adoption.
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Study: Linux Desktop Should Have About 40% in a World Without Windows Piracy
A connection has been found between the software piracy and the adoption of Linux systems, according to a study published at the University of Oslo.
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GNOME 3.20 Beta Extended 1080p Preview on GNOME Next (OpenSUSE)
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Download Linux Voice issue 15
Issue 15 of Linux Voice is nine months old, so we’re releasing it under the Creative Commons BY-SA license.
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This Week in Solus – Install #21
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Rackspace Shifting Engineering Effort Away from Public OpenStack Cloud
Rackspace is positioning itself for growth in 2016 and that involves making sure resources are being put into the right areas of the company. Rackspace reported its fourth quarter and full year 2015 fiscal results on February 16, showing areas of growth as the company continues to expand its focus to supporting multiple types of clouds and not just the OpenStack public cloud.
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HFOSS: Smoke test an XO laptop
In short, I think I lucked out and received one of the most functional devices in the class. After comparing the class inventory to mine, it seems like Hedron the XO is in pretty good shape.
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Piracy
One of the nice things about using Linux is not having to install random things from random sources.
Piracy mostly exists in third world countries. 40% could have applied in 1998 when Windows was too expensive and many people bought locally assembled computers. Windows XP was 450 dollars in 2002 in Lebanon while Windows 10 is only 150 dollars today. Most buy brand name computers now with preinstalled Windows. Linux market share would have likely only increased up to 4% if Windows piracy did not exist at the moment.