<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">John<br><br>I was just going to say this but i am glad you did. If there are any websites that insist<br>on IE then they should be taken out of the survey.<br><br>John<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><span class="intro">We act as though comfort and luxury<br>were the chief requirements of life,<br>when all that we need to make us happy<br>is something to be enthusiastic about.<br>—Einstein<br></span>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>==================================<br>John Eddie Kerr | Guelph, Ontario <br>==================================<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 2/2/10, john@netdirect.ca <i><john@netdirect.ca></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px
solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: john@netdirect.ca <john@netdirect.ca><br>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Linux Marketshare<br>To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br>Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 7:03 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><a ymailto="mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org" href="/mc/compose?to=kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org</a> wrote on 02/02/2010 01:49:02 PM:<br>> <br>> "Desktop penetration" that is something that should be highlighted <br>> as some people use these stats to point out that "Linux has only 1% <br>> of the market" disregarding the market share on servers and embeded <br>devices.<br><br>But what about the other aspects of this survey?<br><br>What web sites were monitored? Forty thousand is a big number for it not <br>to be random but what if many were MS centric for some reason or another?<br><br>Firefox has User-Agent override
add-ons. I use them to access sites that <br>claim to require IE but actually don't. In those cases the logs would show <br>my system is IE?/WinXP.<br><br>How unique are the visits? Is it daily, is it based on IP address, <br>cookies, etc?<br><br>Could hacks (that are rampant) be masquerading as MS systems and skew the <br>numbers?<br><br>Maybe there is a bigger difference between the habits of Linux users and <br>other Internet users.<br><br>When I think about it 1% seems fair, but without digging further I would <br>use it as a low point and suggest that it's possibly higher.<br><br>John Van Ostrand<br>Net Direct Inc.<br> <br>CTO, co-CEO<br>564 Weber St. N. Unit 12<br>map<br> <br>Waterloo, ON N2L 5C6<br> <br><a ymailto="mailto:john@netdirect.ca" href="/mc/compose?to=john@netdirect.ca">john@netdirect.ca</a><br>Ph: 866-883-1172<br>ext.5102<br>Linux Solutions / IBM Hardware<br>Fx: 519-883-8533<br>
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