In comp.os.linux.advocacy, JEDIDIAH
<jedi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:23:00 -0500
<slrngbdd64.r56.jedi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 2008-08-27, The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Tom Shelton
>><tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:47:12 -0500
>><hNWdnQAVEoz9VijVnZ2dnUVZ_h6dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On 2008-08-27, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is Linux?s Marketshare Closer to 20% Or More?
>>>>
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>>>>| What I want to suggest is that the fact that you cannot prove what the
>>>>| marketshare is, combined with general perceptions that computers are Windows,
>>>>| combined with Microsoft and Apple?s PR all make it perfectly possible that
>>>>| Linux?s marketshare is, in fact, closer to 15% or 30%, making it possibly
>>>>| more than the Mac. After all, a lot seems to suggest that the Mac is weak
>>>>| outside the US and Linux has cought on more outside the US. But hey, that is
>>>>| just a guess too!
>>>>|
>>>>| The fact is, we have no real evidence and no way of getting real evidence,
>>>>| so, until we get some good evidence, we shouldn?t just assume no one uses
>>>>| Linux.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/08/26/is-linuxs-marketshare-closer-to-20-or-more/
>>>>
>>>> 40-50% installed base for GNU/Linux on the desktop, according
>>>> to boycottnovell. Niche sites are rarely accounted for in
>>>> Big Lie 'studies'.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Niche sites are exactly what you want to avoid counting in a study. You want
>>> stats from sites that have wide appeal across all platforms.
>>>
>>
>> Plus they have to be unbiased. www.activex.com (which
>> turns out to be a redirect to www.download.com/ActiveX
>> anyway) would not be a good candidate, for example.
>> Neither would www.gentoo.org, though the latter might
>> get an occasional hit from a Linux-curious IE user.
>
> Youtube and Google would be likely "unbiased" "wide appeal" candidates.
>
> [deletia]
>
Very good point. Yahoo! might be reasonably unbiased, despite
Microsoft's wooing thereof.
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