[Leaplist] Linux Counter annual notice

[Homer Whittaker]

Homer Whittaker wrote:


Jim Hartley wrote:
> Did you get that off the web site, or did they actually send it to
> you? I have NEVER gotten anything from them except a response to a
> direct query.
>
> You know, if he didn't purge the list so vigorously, the numbers would
> LOOK a lot better ... with bigger numbers, somebody might actually
> take this seriously and provide "sponsorship" of some sort. If there
> was a (for instance) OSDL Linux counter people might hear about it and
> sign up, and we might get a REAL list with REAL numbers. Unfortunately
> counter.li.org is just too small and obscure to be effective. That's
> why the numbers suck so badly!
>
> Jim Hartley
>
> Patrick wrote:
>> Discouraging that the numbers have fallen so drastically.  One person
>> maintains the list. This is the annual message, from
>> http://counter.li.org:
>>
>> This is the Linux Counter summary as of Mon Jan  1 00:56:27 2007
>>
>> There are 140651 persons registerd.
>> 738 users have been registered by friends.
>> There are 155383 machines registered.
>>
>> I guesstimate that between 0.2% and 5% of all Linux users have
>> registered with the Linux Counter.
>> So the total number of Linux users is probably between
>> 2,813,020 and 70,325,500 people.
>>
Additional Linux based small laptop computers, with Lite Linux installed
from the get go,  selling for $100, will be available in 2007.  This
will boost the numbers and school children (FUTURE USERS) interest to
remarkable heights.
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