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[David Gerard]

2009/12/3 Ari Torhamo <ari.torhamo at gmail.com>:
> to, 2009-12-03 kello 18:25 +0000, Liam Proven kirjoitti:

>> there are about 4x as many Mac OS X users as Linux
>> users, according to various surveys.

> Which surveys? Don't say Net Applications, because their "surveys" can't
> be taken seriously. They even refuse to tell where they get there data
> from. According to Gartner and IDC world wide market share of Apple
> computers is somwhere around 3 percent. It's hard to know how many Linux
> users there are, but likely more than 3 % (remember to think world wide,
> not only US).


I found this survey interesting:

http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm

That's a 1:1000 sampling from a top 5 charity-owned website with no
interest in any OS vendor, only in serving its readers, worldwide.
Mac, at 6.45%, does indeed come out a bit more than 4x Linux (1.51%).


- d.