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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. Could that be... by Valar · · Score: 1, Redundant

    because you can download literally hundreds of kinds of Linux, FOR FREE? No no, that couldn't be it.

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  2. Trend by return+42 · · Score: 2, Redundant
    On the second day of January, Microsoft had generated more operating system revenue than the Linux community (will for the entire year).

    Yep. They have nowhere to go but down. And we have nowhere to go but up.