Re: [SLUG] "My distro beat up your distro" discussion

From: Andrew Wyatt (awyatt@fewt.com)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 16:48:04 EST


> Then there's the market share factor. Yes, I know it's chicken/egg, but
> you need to face the fact that the Linux "recreational desktop" market
> is about 1/100 the size of the Windows one.

I don't believe the REAL numbers are that small, however I do believe
that the perceived numbers are. It would be nice if there was a real
method to count linux users, IE: All distributions should standardize on
an optional totally anonymous "click here to be counted as a Linux
desktop/server user" page post installation, perhaps using a third party
counter site to register with. Only then would we have even a rough
estimate of the real number of Linux users out there.

-- 
Andrew Wyatt <awyatt@fewt.com>



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