Re: How many Linux users?

Some being by the name of Broderick Crawford managed to piece togther the
following:

ray wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:29:05 +0000, who cares? wrote:

I would like to know how many computers are running under some form of
LInux in North America.

I have not been able to discover that number with any combination of
words that I can think of to put into a search engine.

Would any of you gentlemen be able to point me to a source for a
reasonably reliable estimate?

Thanks in advance.

Thirteen that I know of personllay. Really - there are no 'reliable'
statistics - how could there be?


You can be sure Microsoft will downplay any statistics they fine on Linux.

What do you count as a user? someone who computer has Linux installed or
someone who logs in and uses the resources of a linux based system? Do you
count TomTom device users and the like?

My guess would be 42 :-)


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