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Re: [News] Microsoft-funded 'Census' Finds Lots of GNU/Linux and Free Software

  • Subject: Re: [News] Microsoft-funded 'Census' Finds Lots of GNU/Linux and Free Software
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:37:03 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: A poorly-maintained Debian GNU/Linux InterNetNews site
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:696111
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
> Census Reveals the Top 20 Open Source Packages
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The other day we reported findings from the Open Source Census--a global 
>| effort to track the number of installations of open source packages on 
>| computers. Among the top-level findings were that open source is seeing broad 
>| adoption in Europe and in finance. The census has also made available a list 
>| of the top 20 open source packages found in its scans of thousands of 
>| computers. Here are the packages that made the top 20 list.     
> `----
>
> http://ostatic.com/173587-blog/census-reveals-the-top-20-open-source-packages
>

This list has Firefox on 83% of scanned computers (top of the list).
Bottom of the top-ten is Samba on a mere 40% of scanned computers.

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