+++ Ramnarayan.K [2010-10-11 21:56:16]: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Ganesan Venkata Subramanian > <chickoo.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > > With this initiative, we intend to refute the statistics of certain press > > organizations that ensure that the use of GNU/Linux does not exceed 1% and > > has not advanced in recent years at the desktop. > > > > > > And Please count the no of entries from India ..... > > oh wow - after my entry i checked and india has 465 linux desktops - > thats pathetic statistics. I think on this list alone we must have > some 200 members and some members must have more than one machine. > > Hey folks i know you may not like this, but this is serious, the > statistics need just a minute of your time so buckle up and give news > makers a run for their os.
This kind of effort has been happening all the time, pretty much since Linux came into existence. And it has never resulted in a full census. Downloads statistics from the major distros are a better reflection of the state of linux than these counters will ever be. And this effort in particular is pretty lame because they are doing a disservice to the community by forking/duplicating the function of the original linux counter at http://counter.li.org/ <cite> This organization was created on May 1, 1999, taking over the running of the counter from Harald Tveit Alvestrand, who has been running the project since 1993. </cite> If their real motivation was to get a count of users. They'd have driven more eyeballs to http://counter.li.org/ and not started their own effort. Kingsly -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kingsly At Users Dot SourceForge Dot Net -- http://kingsly.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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