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Ubuntu User Count Pegged At Over One Billion (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on from the depends-how-you-count dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In response to an article claiming Ubuntu didn't reach its goal of 200 million users this year — a goal set out by Mark Shuttleworth in 2011 to surpass 200 million users by 2015 — a Canonical engineer has come out to say the opposite. Dustin Kirkland, a member of Ubuntu Product and Strategy team, has come out to say there are more than one billion Ubuntu users. His billion tally though does include cloud/container instances as well as those shopping online at Wallmart, watching popular movies where the studios used Ubuntu servers, streamed from Netflix, rode with Uber, and other businesses that rely upon Ubuntu servers.

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  1. Re:When you miss a metric... by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't watch any of those movies, but I think I once read a book which was printed on paper from a tree which was cut by a logger who uses a phone whose OS contains sourcecode partly written on a computer running Ubuntu.

    So I guess 2015 IS the year of Ubuntu on the desktop afterall.

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  2. Re:When you miss a metric... by NormalVisual · · Score: 4, Funny

    My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris using Ubuntu at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

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  3. Umm by DougOtto · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ubuntu users pegged?

    I hope that's an optional thing.

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