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?
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| 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.
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