__/ [ Hadron Quark ] on Saturday 12 August 2006 16:55 \__
> Au79 <au79@xxxxxxx> writes:
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>> NewsForge - Fremont,CA,USA
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>> ... show off the latest Windows wonders. At last count, there were exactly
>> zero (0) "Linux Across America" trucks.
>>
>>
<http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/06/08/10/1350216.shtml?tid=148&tid=20&tid=11>
>> --
>> ....................
>> http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
>
> Linux has 0.26% market share (the sane interpretation)
>
> http://www.wininsider.com/news/?2248
^^^^^^^^^^
How many vendors do you know who sell machines with Linux preinstalled? I
know a few that give you a blank hard-drive and some Linux CD's. This still
won't count as a Linux box. Web-based statistics will also be deceived by
the traffic of zombies and user-agent forging, which in many cases is a must
(for convenience in surfing). And with wide diversity (as opposed to
uniformity, which helps commercial vendor strut their stuff=figure$) in
these strings, no wonder "Other" occupies such a large portion of the O/S
pie. It is most probably dominated by Linux. I see "Other" holding a 10%
chunk of the pie in my sites.
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