____/ Linonut on Saturday 02 February 2008 17:35 : \____
> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> The World According to Linux
>>
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>>| According to our statistics, 96.4% of computer users are running Linux.
>>| Whoa! It looks like Linux has completely claimed the market. 0.6% of
>>| computer users are running Apple; hmm, but I thought the Apple market share
>>| was improving? Oh, and funny enough, 3% of computer users are running
>>| Windows. Wait a minute! These stats are completely biased, right? Well, I
>>| hope you're getting the point.
>> `----
>>
>> http://linuxhow2.com/Feature_Articles/The_World_According_to_Linux.html
>>
>> Not everyone gets Linux preinstalled on a PC. Few people do. Case of point
>> (new):
>
> Maybe using website stats is a stupid way to generalize about the
> entire PC market. If I happen to visit a site geared towards
> programmers and web developers, I usually find that the number of
> Linux users is much higher than usual. Maybe Linux users, like the
> rest of the people on the Internet, visit those sites that interest
> them most. Maybe web statistics are stupid. Maybe it's kind of weird
> that so many Windows, Internet Explorer, users are visiting this
> site. It's a Linux-fan site, guys!
>
>> "We are implementing Linux in large govt projects across the country"
>> http://dqweek.ciol.com/content/Columns/107072002.asp
>>
>> Linux-based Solutions
>> http://www.dmnnewswire.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=110125
>>
>> Dell leads the Linux workstation market
>> http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/362/
>>
>> Survey Says ? Linux Desktop Is Ever More Popular
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2235654,00.asp
>>
>>| 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.
>>
>> http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/11/desktop-os-vista-vs-linux.html
>>
>> Linux Users Base More Than doubled Over Last One Year: Survey
>>
http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,19940,p,0.html
>>
>> Survey: Desktop Linux use grows
>> http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/013576.html
>>
>> Desktop Linux on the Rise, Linux Foundation Reports
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2220549,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
>
> That's why the posts by dullard like OK and Oxford don't bother me in
> the least.
Their numbers are intended to demoralise users and encourage developers not to
support Linux. In these studies, someone is typically paying the bills and
particular sites donate their log files for a reasons. There's history to
support this assertion.
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