[Leaplist] Get counted!

[Jim Hartley]

Ooops! Apparently "125664" is the old number from the first time I 
registered, long gone from their database but I still have the graphic 
they sent out with that number, now they think I am "323804" ... see 
what I mean?

Jim Hartley

Jim Hartley wrote:
> "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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