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Neil Williams wrote: > > 7. Basing figures on any one piece of software excludes massive numbers > of other installations that use different software - not even the > kernel can be used or you'll exclude most BSD people and those still > warrant consideration in the "free software" economy. It's a mistake to > look for figures on the "Linux market share". As someone said already "share of what". You can get pretty accurate figures for issues such as GNU/Linux share of the web server, DNS server, mail server market - at least for Internet facing devices. Free software is doing well, or dominating in all these, with GNU/Linux providing one of the most common platforms for same. Paul seems to be interested in the traditional Desktop Computer (work or home) - and you can approximate that from browser stats. Sure there is some margin of error but GNU/Linux is well in the "also ran" category between 1 and 2% by almost all measures (at least in our part of the World - US/UK). -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html