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Re: What Microsoft has that Linux doesn't

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> __/ [ Hadron Quark ] on Saturday 12 August 2006 16:55 \__
> 
>> Au79 <au79@xxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>>> NewsForge - Fremont,CA,USA
>>>
>>> ... show off the latest Windows wonders. At last count, there were
>>> exactly zero (0) "Linux Across America" trucks.
>>>
>>>
>
<http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/06/08/10/1350216.shtml?tid=148&tid=20&tid=11>
>>> --
>>> ....................
>>> http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
>> 
>> Linux has 0.26% market share (the sane interpretation)
>> 
>> http://www.wininsider.com/news/?2248
>              ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> How many vendors do you know who sell machines with Linux preinstalled?

Yo.

> I 
> know a few that give you a blank hard-drive and some Linux CD's. This
> still won't count as a Linux box. Web-based statistics will also be
> deceived by the traffic of zombies and user-agent forging, which in many
> cases is a must (for convenience in surfing).

Which renders all user-agent statistics invalid.

> And with wide diversity (as 
> opposed to uniformity, which helps commercial vendor strut their
> stuff=figure$) in these strings, no wonder "Other" occupies such a large
> portion of the O/S pie. It is most probably dominated by Linux. I see
> "Other" holding a 10% chunk of the pie in my sites.

My hosting is 100% "other". I have like, eight domains.

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