Popularity graphs of the entire operating system market (Ubuntu, Vista, OS X
and more)
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| Google trends is a cunning tool; one that can be used to show the
| query frequency of various keywords. Most people misuse it by
| comparing "Linux" and "Vista" in an attempt to show how one is
| better than the other - a comparison that's as foolish as it is
| inaccurate. So I'm putting my thoughts down and applying them to
| some Google trends searches and here is what I've found.
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http://www.seopher.com/articles/popularity_graphs_of_the_entire_operating_system_market_ubuntu_vista_os_x_and_more_
http://tinyurl.com/39qwaq
If you watch the top countries (by queries volume), it's usually from Europe.
Open source 'leaving Asia behind'
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| "If you look at the open source mailing lists to see where the posts come
| from, it is almost exclusively white males, from Europe, including Eastern
| Europe and Russia now, and North America, plus some from South America," he
| said. "The absence of countries such as Japan is striking.
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| [...]
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| "Software engineering is an art, it's a fundamentally different
| mindset to software manufacturing."
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/06/26/open_source_not_asia/
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