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Linux Users Donate Twice As Much As Windows Users, On Average

Posted by Soulskill on from the interesting-data-points dept.

sammyF70 writes "The Wolfire/Humble Indie Bundle real time statistics have been updated to show the average amount donated per platform. It looks like Linux users donate twice as much, on average, as Windows users. You can see some graphs on the Wolfire blog."

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  1. I wonder ... by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If this is counting Window's Users "donations" to Microsoft, McAfee ....

    Windows users already pay through the nose, so they don't have anything leftover to donate.

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  2. And again, the world is a little nicer. by History's+Coming+To · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps because when you feel like you've already got a bargain (infinite value for money on average), you're happy to chuck a few quid in. And can I just say, what a nice, simple, well laid out and advert-realistic that website from TFA is? When we all so often get complete wastes of cycles and eyeballs, that's a really nice website, and we should say so as loudly as we complain about bad ones.

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    1. Re:And again, the world is a little nicer. by timmarhy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      donation paying is really the ultimate free market. I think if more things were priced by how much people valued them rather then prices regulated by government and corporate monopolys we'd all be a lot better off.

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  3. Re:Not surprising... by tonycheese · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Second theory: a much higher percentage of Windows users paid 1 cent for the games. Kids are less likely to have a more expensive Mac and Linux is much more likely to be installed on an adult's machine. (Might be a stupid theory, feel free to poke holes).
    Similarly, we can't forget that the total raised includes donations to EFF and some other charities. It would make sense to me that Linux users are more likely to donate to EFF?

  4. Re:A: Because it breaks the flow of a message by tepples · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While you could certainly critique starting the comment in the subject line, you'd have to find a different way to do it.

    For one thing, it breaks the quote button.

  5. Re:Not surprising... by bheekling · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How many in the Linux/OSX marketshare play games?

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