[Leaplist] Linux Counter annual notice

[Patrick]

Homer Whittaker wrote:
> 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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One of the first takers, is Libya, with $250 million, under a helping 
grant from the U.N. (spelled USA!) so that they get 1.2 MILION Linux 
laptops,  PLUS the wifi network for them to work, PLUS, the contract 
admins to keep it all running! 

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