TY - JOUR T1 - BSD Advocacy and Breaking Through Market Barriers JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Melanie Groves VonFange AB - Currently, proprietary businesses dominate the operating systems market. In 2008, Microsoft Windows controlled 87.9% of the market with Mac OS X following up with 9.73%, leaving only 2.37% of the market to open source alternatives. However, in the past year alone, Linux market share has grown from .80% to 1.02% (a 27.5% increase) and other open source operating systems have grown from .22% to .58% (a 163% increase). These figures translate into millions of open source operating system users. The question is how to continue these upward trends and break the stranglehold that proprietary operating systems have on the markets. This article discusses the role that open source advocacy plays in increasing open source usage. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/262 IS - June 2009 U1 - PC-BSD Melanie Groves VonFange is a wife, mother, blogger, and open source advocate. She has been an insurance agent, makeup artist, and computer sciences student. Currently she can be found running a PC-BSD social networking site and a mock suburban co-housing homestead with the help of her husband, housemate, intern and 4 children. ER -