Linux sales represent a few percentage points of their overall volume, based on the Linksys product director's remarks.
In the article Dhillon claims that they sell "hundreds of thousands per month" units per month. They expect to sell "about 10,000 Linux models per month [..] if lucky.
Let's assume "hundreds of thousands" means somewhere between 200,000 to 400,000 (if it was lower then it wouldn't be hundreds in pluralis, and if it was higher he would probably say "half a million" since that's more impressive marketing speak).
So the Linux sales as a percentage of total sales should be in the region of between 2.5% and 5%. That is pretty impressive and much more than I expected.
I guess most of the guys "modding" their routers to run Linux are already Linux users. It is probably safe to assume that the modding Linux community is a subset of the total Linux community. That would in turn imply that the size of the Linux community is bigger than 2.5% - 5% of the total Internet community. Could that really be the case?
I would start to seriously dout the security of Java (right now I have complete faith in it's being 100% vulnerability free) if hackers were allowed to see everything about how it works.
First, if you are certain that Java is vulnerability free right now it follows that Java will remain vulnerability free indefinitely (assuming no new vulnerabilities are introduced). This holds regardless of source code availability.
Second, the Java source code is already available for download on Sun's site assuming you accept the Sun Community License (SCSL). It is hence safe to assume that black hats looking for Java vulnerabilities already have access to the source code.
In summary; the score 5/insightful of the parent of this posting is a mystery:-)
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It should be enough to just assume that Linksys buyers are representative to the total Internet community. Isn't that safe to assume?
In the article Dhillon claims that they sell "hundreds of thousands per month" units per month. They expect to sell "about 10,000 Linux models per month [..] if lucky.
Let's assume "hundreds of thousands" means somewhere between 200,000 to 400,000 (if it was lower then it wouldn't be hundreds in pluralis, and if it was higher he would probably say "half a million" since that's more impressive marketing speak).
So the Linux sales as a percentage of total sales should be in the region of between 2.5% and 5%. That is pretty impressive and much more than I expected. I guess most of the guys "modding" their routers to run Linux are already Linux users. It is probably safe to assume that the modding Linux community is a subset of the total Linux community. That would in turn imply that the size of the Linux community is bigger than 2.5% - 5% of the total Internet community. Could that really be the case?
First, if you are certain that Java is vulnerability free right now it follows that Java will remain vulnerability free indefinitely (assuming no new vulnerabilities are introduced). This holds regardless of source code availability.
Second, the Java source code is already available for download on Sun's site assuming you accept the Sun Community License (SCSL). It is hence safe to assume that black hats looking for Java vulnerabilities already have access to the source code.
In summary; the score 5/insightful of the parent of this posting is a mystery :-)