Re: Linux's users statistics?

stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: left_coast wrote:
:> Artificer wrote:
:>
:>> There is any regularly updated report where I can find worldly
:>> percentage of Linux use in term of servers, Workstation and Home users
:>> vs. others popular platforms like windows and Mac OS X?
:>
:> There is no reliable stat.

: http://counter.li.org/

: (I'm not commenting on the *reliability* of those statistics. I'm just
: pointing out their *availability*.)

indeed. But a group that takes measurements of 150K and then
extrapolates to -29 million- is pretty suspect, no?

I think so, too, but that site is pretty conscientious and does the best it
can. Since not every single installation is licensed by a central authority,
it is difficult to know just how many machines run Linux. Red Hat might, but
probably not, reveal how many users they have for their distributions, but
even there, that would apply only to those who paid for their subscriptions.
Similarly for other distributers.

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