__/ [ Rex Ballard ] on Friday 04 August 2006 23:39 \__
> I just posted an article based on the "pay it forward", approach.
Link? PDF? I'd be interested in reading more. *smile*
> I crunched the numbers based on each Linux user "turning" an average of
> 1 Linux user every six months, starting in 1993. I know I average
> about one new Linux user every month.
>
> 1/1/1993 1 2
> 6/30/1993 1 6
> 12/27/1993 1 14
> 6/25/1994 1 30
> 12/22/1994 1 62
> 6/20/1995 1 126
> 12/17/1995 1 254
> 6/14/1996 1 510
> 12/11/1996 1 1,022
> 6/9/1997 1 2,046
> 12/6/1997 1 4,094
> 6/4/1998 1 8,190
> 12/1/1998 1 16,382
> 5/30/1999 1 32,766
> 11/26/1999 1 65,534
> 5/24/2000 1 131,070
> 11/20/2000 1 262,142
> 5/19/2001 1 524,286
> 11/15/2001 1 1,048,574
> 5/14/2002 1 2,097,150
> 11/10/2002 1 4,194,302
> 5/9/2003 1 8,388,606
> 11/5/2003 1 16,777,214
> 5/3/2004 1 33,554,430
> 10/30/2004 1 67,108,862
> 4/28/2005 1 134,217,726
> 10/25/2005 1 268,435,454
> 4/23/2006 1 536,870,910
> 10/20/2006 1 1,073,741,822
> 4/18/2007 1 2,147,483,646
So there's a future prediction here, as well as the argument that between
half a billion to a billion users use Linux (or dual boot) at present.
Unless, of course, I am misinterpreting the figures. That seems to suggest
that most of the world's computer users use Linux at some level of capacity.
As for the April 2007 figure, I am not sure that so many people will even
use computers, unless the OLPC projects meets with its expections (200-300
million units within 2 years). I have looked at the headers of your
messages, but it does not appear to be forgery (one has to be careful;
linux-sux at lycos pretends to be my head sysadmin). Only the following
makes me wonder:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728
(CK-IBM) Firefox/1.5.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)
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