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Originally Posted by vlad
No they don't.
Linux will not be able to do any dent in corporate market
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We're not talking about corporate market share, corporate piracy is nowhere near as pervasive as consumer piracy (though still costly). This is about consumer mind share.
Linux isn't there yet from a consumer stand point, but if MS slowly push users in that direction they're just filling the ranks of the rebel alliance. When (in a galaxy far far away) consumers start using Linux where is the need to buy extenders, Zunes or MS Office? that's what would hurt in the long run.
MS even openly admit as much, Microsoft business group president Jeff Raikes has been quoted:
"If they're going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else." , and "We understand that in the long run the fundamental asset is the installed base of people who are using our products. What you hope to do over time is convert them to licensing the software."