[plug] Those Debianistas are going to crow ...

[simon]

Michael L. Benjamin (mike.benjamin at clarinet.com.au) wrote:
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> The funniest part about this is no-one really knows how many of which
> flavour of Linux
> distribution actually exist... so the figures are undoubtedly bogus.

No doubt - I think the Debian figure is elevated in this case because those
guys are more likely to register with the counter :) We have a multitude of
Redhat servers here, and I can guarantee noone has bothered with (or even
knows about) this counter.

Youll never get even vaguely accurate numbers until you put an 'ET phone home'
prog in the installer of every distribution, and then everyone will be up in
arms about privacy issues.

There is one positive in this though - if we cant get accurate numbers,
Microsoft have no chance, and are more likely to underestimate the threat that
linux poses.

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