Dave Sherohman wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:17:48AM -0600, Rodd Ahrenstorff wrote:
> 
>>On Saturday 26 January 2002 9:42 am, you wrote:
>>
>>>Can't speak for the others here, but Linux is on all my home
>>>desktops, and that's about all the growth I care about.  
>>>
>>Does this mean you do not want Linux to gain in popularity?
>>
> 
> No.  I'm not against it, but I'm not for it either.  So long as Linux
> is there for me and can do what I want it to, I couldn't care less
> what the rest of the world uses.  (I care very much about protocols,
> data file formats, etc., as those need to be standardized for the
> sake of interoperability, but what OS someone else uses to speak
> those protocols or create those files is of no interest to me.)

It is my assumption that for an open source OS the more people that use 
it the better it will probably be.  So more people using the same OS as 
you could make the next version better.