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  • Re: Desktop Linux growth over the last 5 years

    From DFS@nospam@dfs.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Jan 5 11:48:55 2026
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    On 10/7/2025 1:32 AM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    On 07 Oct 2025 01:24:40 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:

    I know Parallels is doing things differently with 26 (or maybe 26.1).
    Maybe it is tied to this?

    Whichever way you look at it, itrCOs an admission of defeat. Just like with Microsoft, Apple finds itself unable to add important new capabilities to
    its flagship OS that the market demands, so it has to resort to rCLborrowingrCY Linux itself, lock, stock and barrel, to get them.


    You want admissions of defeat?

    1 Stallman: "We decided to make the operating system compatible with
    Unix because the overall design was already proven and portable, and
    because compatibility makes it easy for Unix users to switch from Unix
    to GNU."

    2 https://www.winehq.org/

    3 some Linux clown in 2007: ""Vista is introducing alot of new features
    and I'm pretty sure we can (or will very shortly) replicate most of
    those features in Ubuntu."


    Doesn't get more permanently defeated than that.
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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Jan 5 12:10:46 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 1/5/26 11:48 AM, DFS wrote:
    On 10/7/2025 1:32 AM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    On 07 Oct 2025 01:24:40 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:

    I know Parallels is doing things differently with 26 (or maybe 26.1).
    Maybe it is tied to this?

    Whichever way you look at it, itrCOs an admission of defeat. Just like with >> Microsoft, Apple finds itself unable to add important new capabilities to
    its flagship OS that the market demands, so it has to resort to
    rCLborrowingrCY Linux itself, lock, stock and barrel, to get them.

    You want admissions of defeat?

    1-a Stallman: "We decided to make the operating system compatible with
    Unix because the overall design was already proven and portable, and
    because compatibility makes it easy for Unix users to switch from Unix
    to GNU."


    What could be wrong with that? Heh.


    2-a https://www.winehq.org/


    It works pretty well, it's good, so what? I don't even use it anymore.
    But it's nice to know I could.


    3-a some Linux clown in 2007: ""Vista is introducing alot of new features and I'm pretty sure we can (or will very shortly) replicate most of
    those features in Ubuntu."


    Oh right, MS never imitates others.


    Doesn't get more permanently defeated than that.


    Maybe to a Winblows fan like you, objectively you're just spewing hot air.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Jan 10 21:06:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 11:48:55 -0500, DFS wrote:

    On 10/7/2025 1:32 AM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

    Whichever way you look at it, itrCOs an admission of defeat.

    You want admissions of defeat?

    Remember what IrCOm talking about here: these proprietary platforms are
    unable to replicate Linux functionality, so they have to resort to rCLborrowingrCY the actual Linux code itself, lock, stock and barrel.

    Those examples you gave are of Linux itself replicating functionality
    without copying proprietary code, and in some cases doing it better
    than the original!
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