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OK, if it's in cars (even if only one CPU per car, or even only in high-end cars), then yes, that certainly is "widely used". (In terms of numbers shipped, not necessarily in terms of "design wins" - but then, Windows doesn't have that many "design wins" either.)


So now you're moving the goalposts with "design wins". Just what are the design wins of a SysV Unix clone like Linux, pray tell? It's hard not to be on the offensive when you seem to beg for it. Where did the Windows comparison come from?

The design wins, of course, should be obvious to anyone willing to do a modicum of research.


Nope, not moving the goalposts. Re-read my previous post.

To clarify: Windows is, by any definition, both "mainstream" and "widely used". Yet it has very few "design wins". Therefore, the argument that cars are "only a few design wins" cannot be used to say that QNX, say, is not widely used or mainstream, since Windows is obviously mainstream and widely used.

> It's hard not to be on the offensive when you seem to beg for it.

You need to re-calibrate your sensitivity. You seem eager to take offense at nearly everything. Very little of it is worthy of your outrage.


The "design win" comment should be read as a concession to your earlier point about the role of technological superiority in industry decisions.




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