[ubuntu-in] We are more than 1%

[Kingsly John]

+++ Ramnarayan.K [2010-10-11 21:56:16]:

> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Ganesan Venkata Subramanian
> <chickoo.iyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > With this initiative, we intend to refute the statistics of certain press
> > organizations that ensure that the use of GNU/Linux does not exceed 1% and
> > has not advanced in recent years at the desktop.
> >
> >
> > And Please count the no of entries from India .....
> 
> oh wow - after my entry i checked and india has 465 linux desktops -
> thats pathetic statistics. I think on this list alone we must have
> some 200 members and some members must have more than one machine.
> 
> Hey folks i know you may not like this, but this is serious, the
> statistics need just a minute of your time so buckle up and give news
> makers a run for their os.

This kind of effort has been happening all the time, pretty much since Linux
came into existence. And it has never resulted in a full census.

Downloads statistics from the major distros are a better reflection of the
state of linux than these counters will ever be.

And this effort in particular is pretty lame because they are doing a
disservice to the community by  forking/duplicating the function of the
original linux counter at http://counter.li.org/

<cite>
This organization was created on May 1, 1999, taking over the running of the
counter from Harald Tveit Alvestrand, who has been running the project since
1993. 
</cite>

If their real motivation was to get a count of users. They'd have driven more
eyeballs to http://counter.li.org/ and not started their own effort.

Kingsly

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