On: Two types of C programmers

[pjmlp]

The free beer one, because everyone likes to get source tapes for free, regardless of the quality, free usually wins out.

[patrick451 → pjmlp]

This doesn't seem to hold in the general case. Windows and Macos are not free in any sense, but vastly outnumber linux on the desktop.

[thesuperbigfrog → patrick451]

The desktop is not the general case.

By install count, Linux runs on far more platforms than anything else: smartphones, tablets, servers, virtual machines, embedded devices, supercomputers, and spacecraft.

[xboxnolifes → patrick451]

They may not technically be free, but they typically come bundled with the computer you buy. Linux has yet to be shipping with free comparable computers, so the cost of Windows/MacOS is invisible to the end consumer.

[pjmlp → patrick451]

Because Linux folks cannot get their act together in what means a full stack desktop experience.

Not even Android games get ported in any significant number to GNU/Linux.

The war of Linux Distributions is ten fold worse as the UNIX wars.