Ben Rosenberg wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I want to pose a question and see what all of you think. Within the
> last 6-8 months we have see an increadible increase in interest and
> usage of Linux ( whatever distro ) and yet we have not see the numbers
> in these articles increase at all. It's always quoted at 7-12 million
> people world wide. Does anyone think that with all this interest that
> the number stagnated and did not grow? Yet the MS numbers we see keep
> growing and growning like a plague?! I know that statistics should not
> mean much, but I would like to know where it stands just for the hell of
> it.
> Any thoughts would be good .. and maybe we can submit something to /.
> just to see if they will do a survey about it..an across the board
> usage..all distros right? Cause it's all Linux .. Right????
>
> Just something that made me go....hmmmmmmm.
>
Let's see: MS stats go up because MS says they do.
Linux stats are stagnant because the people who use Linux
are busy getting to work on a stable platform and forgot
to register. Or they're like me, registered once, even
though I have installed it on three friends computers,
and run it on six PC's at home. I guess I'm part of the
problem.
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