It's statements like this that worry me for the future of Ubuntu

[Samuel Thurston]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a big difference between '%' and 'percentage points', and
> they are extremely misleading when abused.
>
> I agree with you about not equalling failure though.
>

well the whole way the statistics are compiled is misleading anyway,
since most of the (for the sake of argument) 93% MS users didn't
really select the windows OS, and most of the 4% mac users didn't
really choose Mac OS, they chose the pretty white machine that matches
their iPod, whereas almost all of the 3% linux users chose and
installed it.  I bet the numbers get a lot closer when you only count
post-build installs.