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Linux Sales Down, But...

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the who-pays-for-a-distro-anyway dept.

An anonymous reader writes " News.com has a story about combined Linux revenues reaching $80 million for 2001. "The Linux operating system market, from a revenue perspective, accounts for one half of 1 percent of the total operating system revenue each year, or roughly two days' worth of Microsoft's operating system revenue," [IDC Analyst] Gillen said. "On the second day of January, Microsoft had generated more operating system revenue than the Linux community (will for the entire year).""

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  1. Warning: cynicism ahead. by Zordok · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who cares? Capitalism isn't all it's cracked up to be...

    -Zordok