Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Okay, now lets tie this all back in together. Novell claimed several
>> months back in a video ad that Desktop Linux users accounted for
>> upwards of 30,000,000 different people. That's 30 million. Recent
>> statements made by some Novell representatives indicate that they
>> expect there are upwards of 50,000,000 Desktop Linux users.
>> Microsoft has never contested the number of Desktop Linux users, and
>> if anything the deal Microsoft signed with Novell was tacit
>> agreement that Microsoft believed those numbers to be accurate.
A year solid of whining about NovellSoft but suddenly Novell and MS are your
best friends because you like the numbers Novell makes up out of thin air.
chuckle! Integrity you ain't.
>> Now, Microsoft reported back in July that 60 million copies of Vista
>> had been sold. Now start subtracting the crossgrades to Xp that are
>> not counted as sales, and the 3-1 to ratio of Xp to Vista sales.
>> Now, I'm not confident in my mathematics, but right now the best I
>> can come up with is a realistic install base of around 40 million.
>>
>> Yes. Desktop Linux Marketshare... is larger than Vista.
Then you have to divide the "30,000,000" supposed ('cause remember nobody
knows how many Linux installs there are - you cola morons have been shouting
this for years) Linux users by 10 to account for the spastic distro shuffle
that goes on, then cut the resulting amount by 99% to account for those that
try Linux but immediately switch back to Windows when they actually use the
OSS crap, then cut that result by 99% to account for the dual-booters.
Thus you're left with about 300 dedicated Linux desktop users - at most.
(note: this is an exercise in Rex Ballard-esque idiocy, but feel free to
prove any of it is wrong)
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