What I find is that figures like 0.8% are not properly verifiable. Somebody pressed F1 and Clippy told them what to measure!
These numbers may severely underestimate Linux deployment. If however records of press releases are counted up for how many systems got deployed by various companies, then for 2007 it is 1 million+ desktops PER MONTH getting installed. At least the press releases are independently verifiable. For embedded Linux (routers, flat TV, DVD recorders, M3/MP4 players etc) - the numbers are around 1 million devices sold PER DAY.
For this year, it should be easy. We are in January. The EEE as an example is projected to sell around 5 million this year. That then takes care of January to May. Join the dots with all the other press releases, at the end 2008, we should have a much better figure for how many Linux desktops, embedded devices etc got deployed. If the numbers get revised, then the figures can be revised, but in a verifiable way.
"This means that it's quite easy for Canopy and SCO to keep the stock price pretty high by simply trading it amongst themselves, specifically a lot of people have noticed that the stock begins to dive in the mornings but then before the close a number of trades will be made at very high prices leaving the stock with a high closing price."
This is called stock market manipulation.
The buying and selling should be between
people who don't know each other through brokers. If the brokers are facilitating trades between various canopy members in preference to the ordinary man in the street, then the brokers and the canopy group traders are practicing wire fraud and whole host of other misdemeanours for which the police and SEC and FBI and other people will want to exchange words with these traders, banks and brokers.
Ping!
I wonder which environmental nut falls for these redundant frequently aired politico global hot crap!
A little common sense should let any geek know that a newly discovered substance called Dihydrogen Monoxide which is invisble to environmentalists and politico nincompoops has put a hole in all these theories. This white substance Dihydrogen monoxide steams into number one as the only big issue. Dihydrogen Monoxide (or H20 as its known) clouds into sky carrying millions of tons of boiled water (just think how many electric kettles you need to boil to make one cloud) and its the one and only major carrier of heat around the planet. Since 2/3 of the planet is water, there is little or nothing anyone can or should be doing about it.
These ennviornmental nuts just don't have any answer to geeks pricking their bubble.
Sounds like a great idea! Now we can hack the system, create a traffic jam when Queeny goes for a drive, stop her car, open the door, hand in the obligatory shaving device to her majesty, and shout with gusto and triamph "God Shave The Queen!" I just hope to duck fast enough when she reaches out to friggin Knight me!
Two years ago, this kind of answer would have
been acceptable. We are all M$ refugees now
and know little about open source.
Give us revolution, not this wimpy stuff.
Progressive forward looking companies will
find it inevitable they must use open source.
Its time to come up with a payment friendly mascot
for all sites to use.
E.g. say a penguin with a dollar bag on its shoulder
and then an agreed way of writing underneath it 1. How much was paid (optional), 2. How many lines of code contributed (optional) and 3. Link
to a document that describes in an agreed way the recipients and amounts (compulsory for use of the penguin with dollar bag symbol). I wonder what some of the leaders of the open source community will have to say for that because this is their call.
Maybe they needed to borrow some of
that beautiful Terminator 3 girl's liquid metal hands and get her to finger Beagle to turn on.
Beagle would be powerless to resist all those fingers pressing all those buttons all at the same time!
Seriously...so many missions lost, they should be putting self repair technologies into what are supposed to be bleeding edge probes falling apart with minor issues.
Tehe!
Whenever I hear this kind of environmentalist rabble, I can now clearly associate them with dihydrogen monoxide issues.
The biggest green house gas in a newly discovered substance known as dihydrogen monoxide. Yet it is invisible to most environmentalists radar. They don't know it exists. Most media have never heard of it let alone mention it. Even if you were to mention that two thirds of the planet is covered with dihydrogen monoxide (or H2O as its commonly referred to) its somehow fogs out the core issues. There is plenty of steam in dihydrogen monoxide theories make it THE number one factor for global warming and since dihydrogen monoxide covers two thirds of the planet, there is nothing that anyone can or should be doing about it.
Dihydrogen monoxide carries gigawatts of heat energy around the planet. It is responsible for all the heat retention of the planet and maintaining conditions suitable for life. Without it Earth would be cold and dead just like the Moon. Environmentalists leap at their sceptics as heretics - but in their haste to preserve their funding, they can't address dreadfully simple issues like dihydrogen monoxide. I can only hope they grow up some day and admit their childish pseudo science was all a waste of money and not real science.
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Name one approved method for measuring Linux!!!
What I find is that figures like 0.8% are not properly verifiable. Somebody pressed F1 and Clippy told them what to measure!
These numbers may severely underestimate Linux deployment. If however records of press releases are counted up for how many systems got deployed by various companies, then for 2007 it is 1 million+ desktops PER MONTH getting installed. At least the press releases are independently verifiable. For embedded Linux (routers, flat TV, DVD recorders, M3/MP4 players etc) - the numbers are around 1 million devices sold PER DAY.
For this year, it should be easy. We are in January. The EEE as an example is projected to sell around 5 million this year. That then takes care of January to May. Join the dots with all the other press releases, at the end 2008, we should have a much better figure for how many Linux desktops, embedded devices etc got deployed. If the numbers get revised, then the figures can be revised, but in a verifiable way.
"This means that it's quite easy for Canopy and SCO to keep the stock price pretty high by simply trading it amongst themselves, specifically a lot of people have noticed that the stock begins to dive in the mornings but then before the close a number of trades will be made at very high prices leaving the stock with a high closing price."
This is called stock market manipulation. The buying and selling should be between people who don't know each other through brokers. If the brokers are facilitating trades between various canopy members in preference to the ordinary man in the street, then the brokers and the canopy group traders are practicing wire fraud and whole host of other misdemeanours for which the police and SEC and FBI and other people will want to exchange words with these traders, banks and brokers.
Ping! I wonder which environmental nut falls for these redundant frequently aired politico global hot crap! A little common sense should let any geek know that a newly discovered substance called Dihydrogen Monoxide which is invisble to environmentalists and politico nincompoops has put a hole in all these theories. This white substance Dihydrogen monoxide steams into number one as the only big issue. Dihydrogen Monoxide (or H20 as its known) clouds into sky carrying millions of tons of boiled water (just think how many electric kettles you need to boil to make one cloud) and its the one and only major carrier of heat around the planet. Since 2/3 of the planet is water, there is little or nothing anyone can or should be doing about it. These ennviornmental nuts just don't have any answer to geeks pricking their bubble.
Sounds like a great idea!
Now we can hack the system, create a traffic jam when Queeny goes for a drive, stop her car, open the door, hand in the obligatory shaving device to her majesty, and shout with gusto and triamph "God Shave The Queen!" I just hope to duck fast enough when she reaches out to friggin Knight me!
Two years ago, this kind of answer would have been acceptable. We are all M$ refugees now and know little about open source. Give us revolution, not this wimpy stuff.
Progressive forward looking companies will find it inevitable they must use open source. Its time to come up with a payment friendly mascot for all sites to use. E.g. say a penguin with a dollar bag on its shoulder and then an agreed way of writing underneath it 1. How much was paid (optional), 2. How many lines of code contributed (optional) and 3. Link to a document that describes in an agreed way the recipients and amounts (compulsory for use of the penguin with dollar bag symbol). I wonder what some of the leaders of the open source community will have to say for that because this is their call.
Maybe they needed to borrow some of that beautiful Terminator 3 girl's liquid metal hands and get her to finger Beagle to turn on. Beagle would be powerless to resist all those fingers pressing all those buttons all at the same time! Seriously...so many missions lost, they should be putting self repair technologies into what are supposed to be bleeding edge probes falling apart with minor issues.
Tehe! Whenever I hear this kind of environmentalist rabble, I can now clearly associate them with dihydrogen monoxide issues. The biggest green house gas in a newly discovered substance known as dihydrogen monoxide. Yet it is invisible to most environmentalists radar. They don't know it exists. Most media have never heard of it let alone mention it. Even if you were to mention that two thirds of the planet is covered with dihydrogen monoxide (or H2O as its commonly referred to) its somehow fogs out the core issues. There is plenty of steam in dihydrogen monoxide theories make it THE number one factor for global warming and since dihydrogen monoxide covers two thirds of the planet, there is nothing that anyone can or should be doing about it. Dihydrogen monoxide carries gigawatts of heat energy around the planet. It is responsible for all the heat retention of the planet and maintaining conditions suitable for life. Without it Earth would be cold and dead just like the Moon. Environmentalists leap at their sceptics as heretics - but in their haste to preserve their funding, they can't address dreadfully simple issues like dihydrogen monoxide. I can only hope they grow up some day and admit their childish pseudo science was all a waste of money and not real science.