Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-42,: Re: Linux vs Microsoft

# Re: Linux vs Microsoft

Carlos Morgado (l39801@alfa.ist.utl.pt)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 13:21:53 +0100

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On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 08:30:28PM -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
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> On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
[snip]
>
> 3. Even if we take the most optimistic estimates of total Linux users, and
> the most pessimistic estimates of Windows 95 upgrade sales, more people
> have bought and installed the Windows 95 upgrade than have installed
> Linux.
>

Don't forget large multiuser company deals. My university per example has a
campus wide MS licence. MS can count about 5000 licences there. My guess is
less then 500 people upgraded.
Numbers can be manipulated anywhere you want :)

Moreover, you should be looking at the people who bought w98 upgrade and
manged to install it sucefully themselfs.

Don't believe the hype hehe

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