On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:53:16 -0600, Sinister Midget wrote:
> On 2007-12-29, Kier <vallon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:44:21 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> ____/ Kier on Saturday 29 December 2007 17:40 : \____
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:28:55 +0000, 7 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Linux is show shipping 1 million new desktops per month and selling
>>>>
>>>> YOu still haven't shown any proof of this.
>>>
>>> It's a very reasonable estimate. Eee PCs alone sold about 200,000 per month.
>>
>> I heard 175,000. Whichever it is, it's pretty good news, I agree. But 7
>> has been saying this for ages without any evidence. When anyone asks, he
>> just spews more babytalk.
>>
>>> That's a number of /new/ Linux PCs you can't just sneeze at.
>>
>> But where have the rest come from? A million a month is a very large
>> figure, after all, and it's best to be as accurate as possible, that way
>> we can't be criticised for making things up.
>
> How many has gPC been selling? How many Ubuntu machines are being sold
> by Dell? How many OLPCs are shipping? How many are individual locaal
> shops, and vendors like MadTux, shipping?
Obviously, it's very difficult to tell.
>
> Granted, the number might not approach a million a month it total. Or
> it might surpass it. But there's no proof either way unless all of the
> commercial interests are doing it.
>
> Not that I'm trying to support 7's idiocy, even if he does manage to
> almost be as right as a stopped clock. It's just there are a lot being
> shipped and/or sold outright.
I don't doubt that. And it may well add up to a million or more, but he
keeps throwing this figure around without showing where it came from,
that's all. Showing some good solid evidence wherever there is any is much
bbetter than just *saying* it. It's much harder for the nay-sayers to
contradict.
--
Kier
|
|
