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|    Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to DFS    |
|    Re: Desktop Linux growth over the last 5    |
|    10 Jan 26 21:06:28    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 11:48:55 -0500, DFS wrote:              > On 10/7/2025 1:32 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:       >>       >> Whichever way you look at it, it’s an admission of defeat.       >       > You want admissions of defeat?              Remember what I’m talking about here: these proprietary platforms are       unable to replicate Linux functionality, so they have to resort to       “borrowing” 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!              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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