Re: [News] 50,000,000 Desktop GNU/Linux Users Already?

["amicus_curious" <ACDC@xxxxxxx>]

"7" <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> > 50,000,000 Desktop GNU/Linux Users Already?Desktop OS- Vista vs. Linux
> >
> > ,----[ Quote ]
> > | Okay, now lets tie this all back in together. Novell claimed several
> > | months back in a video ad that Desktop Linux users accounted for 
> > upwards
> > | of 30,000,000 different people. That's 30 million. Recent statements
> > | made by some Novell representatives indicate that they expect there are
> > | upwards of 50,000,000 Desktop Linux users. Microsoft has never 
> > contested
> > | the number of Desktop Linux users, and if anything the deal Microsoft
> > | signed with Novell was tacit agreement that Microsoft believed those
> > | numbers to be accurate.
> Is that more than 7% of all desktop users? If so, Linux desktop has gone
> mainstream!
>
> At least 1 million new Linux desktops a month being added to the count
> and increasing the rate all the time.
And so stealthy too!  All these users not showing up on the website counters 
and such!  Microsoft is being blindsided into thinking that nothing much is 
going on.  Are you sure you should be spilling the beans?