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Linux Outpacing Macintosh On Desktops
An anonymous reader points out this article in the International Herald Tribune about corporate acceptance of computers running GNU/Linux, which includes this snippet: "Linux is already outpacing Macintosh on desktops: "Dan Kusnetzky, an analyst for International Data Corp., said Linux had a 3.9 percent share of desktops worldwide, outpacing Macintosh's 3.1 percent." The article does not specify from where Kuznetsky draws either figure, but can it be true that Linux systems currently outnumber Macintoshes?
....Tux eating an Apple.
"Folks just call him Buckethead." -- Les Claypool
I'm running whatever Ellen Feiss tells me to.
Yes, but that is Canadian data, so it means nothing to us in the real world.
Hmmm... interesting advice.
I think I'll tell Ford Pinto owners that they should just invest in some automatic fire extinguishers.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
So Linux supports sweatshop conditions in the third world and that's a GOOD thing? Fuck LINUX, and FUCK YOU!
Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that.
Google is almost certainly *not* the best place to get this sort of data. The population that uses google is almost certainly not representative of the large population of computer users. And how do they count the accesses? Per access or per "machine"?
I suspect these numbers indicate that Windows users are generally complete nincompoops that require 91 times as many google searches to get the same data as a GNU/Linux user gets in 1 search. Mac users, bless their souls, rate much higher at 1/4 the intelligence of a GNU/Linux user.
-Paul Komarek
Isn't this somewhat akin to saying, "I was the MVP center of the All-Midget Basketball Association"?
They probably got the statistics from the latest poll.