[Tfug] Hate to say I told you so..

Eric Gearhart eric at nixwizard.net
Tue Feb 3 12:43:48 MST 2009


On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Ayre <andy at britishideas.com> wrote:
> All three articles appear to reference the same study, performed by Net
> Applications. On this page:
>
> http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Windows-7-and-Vista-Up-Mac-OS-X-Up-Linux-and-XP-Down-4.jpg
>
> the second article shows a graph, with the credit "Image credits: Net
> Applications". As this is linked to the same article Eric referenced and the
> image is credited to Net Applications, I would assume this is the raw data.
>
> I generated my own graph of the Linux column, which you can see here:
>
> http://files.britishideas.com/public/tfug/linuxusage.jpg
>
> I'm not sure what conclusion I would draw from that data. I don't think I
> would claim a decline, unless I was only comparing the latest data with the
> previous month.
>
> Andy

Hmm... yea that's a bit of a stretch to say "declining," just because
October was a "bad month" so to speak

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Eric
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