Lies, Damn Lies and Linux Market Share Statistics

Posted by Sander_Marechal on May 12, 2009 10:26 AM EDT
Linux Insider; By Katherine Noyes 		Mail this story
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Market share, market share, what's Linux's true market share? That, in essence, has been the question du jour on the Linux blogs in recent days. It all started when NetApplications' Hitslink.com released some statistics for April indicating that Linux just passed 1 percent for the first time. Around the same time, however, W3Counter published figures for the same month indicating that it had just passed 2 percent. Many FOSS aficionados, meanwhile, argue that it could be 6 percent or higher. The result? You guesstimated it: nothing short of chaos and confusion.

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