[Leaplist] Get counted!

[Jim Hartley]

"The Linux Counter" is a good idea, but the way they do things is a 
PITA! They expect you to remember, without any kind of reminder or 
anything, to go back in once a year and say "Hey, guys, I'm still a 
Linux user." Who can remember that sort of thing?

I registered once and got a number. I came across it a while later, and 
looked, but my original registration and number were gone. Well, I 
registered again and have a number ... 125664 ... maybe it's still 
valid? Your message reminded me, I went and gave them my e-mail, and 
maybe, just maybe they are e-mailing me a password to go in and see 
what's there.

If they really want some kind of accurate count, they need to send out 
reminders once a year. If you assume numbers are now twice as large, 
that would be 240,000 e-mails per year, 20,000 per month, 700 per day. 
You could hide that as a background job on any modern box ... look at 
the number of e-mails a spammer sends out in a day!!!!

If you're going to count heads, try to keep up with it, don't just 
assume that anyone you haven't heard from in a while no longer needs to 
be counted.

Jim Hartley

Patrick wrote:
> The Linux Counter has the USA listed as having 25,459 Linux users out 
> of 300 million people.
>
> Well, it just can't be true, because even IBM has 480,000 desktop 
> computers, of which about 6% run Linux, (in Engineering and the 
> servers, with a promise in 2004 to switch them all over!), so right 
> there, you have 28,800 GNU/Linux computers!
>
> If you want to help get the USA back on the map, and if you want to 
> convince hardware makers to build for GNU/Linux, you could register!  
> http://counter.li.org
>
> It only needs to be visited once a year!!!
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