On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:11:03 -0500, HeyBub wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>>
>> Look at the usual press when a new Linux distribution gets released...
>> Stuff like : 8million downloads in 2 weeks etc....
>> Same for OpenOffice.
>>
>> And that very well may be true.
>>
>> However, now look at the statistics for people who are actually USING
>> desktop Linux.
>>
>> If those very same downloads were being used for any length of time,
>> Linux would have buried Microsoft by now.
>
> Well, no. If 8 million folks are using Linux, out of 1 billion desktop
> installation, that's about right.
>
> By some estimates, there are about 8 million truely insane people on the
> globe. There is some disagreement about the overlap between these two
> groups.

The 8 million was figurtively speaking for ONE release and a short period
of time.

Add them all together, IOW the reported downloads by ALL the distributions
releasing press about their latest creation.

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Moshe Goldfarb
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