Clogwog (Rick Mathers) schreef:
> "High Plains Thumper" schreef...
>> Clogwog (Rick Mathers) wrote:
>>
>>> Ha, ha, of course your right, despite all efforts of linux
>>> advocates to make us believe that linux is on the edge of
>>> a "major breakthrough" in the desktop market. Since
>>> august Linux is going down again!
>>>
>>> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
>>
>> Interesting, US (42% hits) and 1st world countries interests
>> in Linux are up.
>>
>> Oct-2008 - 3.8%
>> Nov-2003 - 2.6%
>> Net Gain - 1.2%
>>
>> Where is Flatfish's 0.6%?
>
> Other stat, I used the optimistic one for Linux! b.t.w.
> Congrats it's now 0.71% Next target is Windows NT
> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....b3e2740941b0b3

Spoken of July 2008, reprinted for all's edification:

William Poaster wrote:
> Phil Da Lick! wrote:
>> Hadron wrote:
>>> "Phil Da Lick!" writes:
>>>
>>>> #1: ANYONE ANYWHERE who describes the BBC as "unbiased"
>>>> has totally and utterly ****ing lost it. They are well
>>>> known in the UK for being so far up Labour's arse its
>>>> untrue. Its a left-wing propoganda machine and has been
>>>> for years.
>>>
>>> And this has to do with what OS people use how exactly?
>>> You have lost the plot old son. Now maybe you know what I
>>> meant be "bias" in this context. Do try to keep up.
>>
>> Nice deflect. Not. Keep spouting your 0.6%. Its about as
>> valid as 3.6%. Or any other stat from one site.
>
> As I said, an *English* speaking site. Linux distros are
> produced in a great number of languages other than English.
>
> There was a report not long ago, of 55 million pupils in
> Brazil now using linux, many of them may not even *speak*
> English, so wouldn't even bother with the BBC website.
>
> Or how about Chinese, where it's estimated that 12% now use
> some form of linux (mainly thanks to M$ antipiracy policy), &
> many of whom *may* not speak English & (again) wouldn't bother
> with the BBC website? It's estimated, BTW, that in 2008 an
> estimated estimated 6 million computers that will be sold in
> China's rural areas providing a big stage for Linux desktop
> software. How many of those rural Chinese will be able to
> speak English, & log onto the BBC's website? Probably about as
> many as a Glawegian road sweeper logging onto this:
> http://www.bjd.com.cn/
>
> And so on, & so on.....
>
> So website stats don't mean zip. They are *only* valid for the
> people who visit it & speak *that* language.

Well put. Linux has considerable worldwide presence outside the
US. Hadron supports the trolls with their failed logic, which
goes to show that he is not a serious Linux user and is only here
to denigrate Linux advocacy.

As Linux grows by leaps and bounds, the trolls keep singing their
mantra that it remains at under 1%, that Microsoft is not a
monopoly, that Microsoft makes the best products, that "how dare
you criticise Microsoft's home grown goodness" (DFS), that the EU
is inconsiderate and unfair with their judgments, that the more
than adequate KDE (among others) desktops are inadequate, and ad
nauseum. [...]

They are all in a state of denial.

>> However, tallying all Windows in the chart:
>>
>> Oct-2008 - 90.7%
>> Nov-2003 - 93.7%
>> Net Loss - 3.0%
>>
>> Bummer, Windows.

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