Linux desktop market share is up as much as 61 percent, study finds
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| It's not a perfect way to measure adoption. It's highly fallible. But one
| thing does seem clear to me from the data: Linux on the desktop is growing.
| It may only be growing within a small class of users, but it is growing. But
| if my grandma can use it, perhaps that "small class" will grow, too.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9910263-16.html
As he says, it cannot ever be measured reliably, but it's the *trend* one
should be paying attention to (and adoption curves are never linear). Usage of
Linux doubled on the desktop in one year, according to the studies in the
links below (participation). And:
Why I Ubuntu
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| As the user base grows, the Linux experience itself will improve. OEMS and
| hardware manufacturers starting to provide drivers and application support.
| The initiatives are modest, but they are a start. There is a shift that is
| happening. It is subtle, but it is real. That should encourage us all that
| Linux is on the verge of something big.
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http://linuxcanuck.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/why-i-ubuntu/
Recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Microsoft's SEC:
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| A prominent example of open source software is the Linux operating system...
| To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, sales
| of our products may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for
| our products, and revenue and operating margins may consequently decline.
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http://www. microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
keywords: "microsoft", "lie", "jihad", "war"
Related:
Less software piracy means more jobs, more state revenue: Study
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| "The number of customers using Red Hat operating systems, for example,
| doubled in 2007," he said.
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http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailbusiness.asp?fileid=20080125.L04&irec=3
Survey Says … Linux Desktop Is Ever More Popular
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| The first thing we can say about the Linux desktop in 2007 is that there are
| more users than ever. The Linux Foundation 2006 survey had fewer than 10,000
| people signing in. This year more than 20,000 Linux desktop users reported
| in.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2235654,00.asp
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| 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.
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/11/desktop-os-vista-vs-linux.html
Linux Users Base More Than doubled Over Last One Year: Survey
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| The number of Linux users has more than doubled over the last one year, says
| a new survey by DesktopLinux.com. The survey also said Ubuntu remains their
| Linux distribution of choice.
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http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,19940,p,0.html
Survey: Desktop Linux use grows
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| DesktopLinux.com, which is a Web site devoted to, obviously, desktop Linux,
| has finished a survey that found more than a doubling of Linux desktop users
| in the past year.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/013576.html
Desktop Linux on the Rise, Linux Foundation Reports
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| For starters, almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year's survey
| compared with fewer than 10,000 in 2006's survey.
|
| [...]
|
| In those businesses and organizations that have deployed Linux desktops, 39.5
| percent are running Linux on more than half of their machines.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2220549,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
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