Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 2nd May 2009 10:23 UTC, submitted by Luis
Yes boys and girls, it's Net Applications time. Sure, their figures are flawed, and sure, they're misused all over the non-scientifically educated media, but that doesn't mean they do not indicate trends. One of those trends was a slowly rising popularity of Linux, which hit 0.93% market share in August 2008, only to sink back again during the following months. Well, it's 
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RE[2]: Study paid by Microsoft
by kensai on Sat 2nd May 2009 15:54
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Member since:2005-12-27
Here you go the market share study is fake:
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/02/03/net-applications-big-lie/
Linux Servers exceed 13% market share:
http://www.techspot.com/news/31405-linux-server-market-exceeds-13.h...
Linux in super computers market share, this one says 87% market share in supercomputers, but still a lot:
http://www.top500.org/stats/list/32/osfam
Fedora 10 alone has one million users:
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/02/red-hat-fedora-linux-1...
Man, Linux is unstoppable, we are everywhere and rule almost all markets. Just remember the desktop is not MS intended market, if they are left with desktop market alone they would go broke.
Edited 2009-05-02 15:55 UTC
RE[3]: Study paid by Microsoft
by vivainio on Sat 2nd May 2009 16:13
in reply to "RE[2]: Study paid by Microsoft"
Member since:2008-12-26
Here you go the market share study is fake:
Yeah, says Boycott Novell. Reader discretion is advised.
Man, Linux is unstoppable, we are everywhere and rule almost all markets.
That sounds excessively optimistic by a long shot. You are spot on about Linux being unstoppable, but we hardly dominate any market where platform is of big importance. Yet. Expect Linux to do absolute killing on mobile phone market in < 3 years.
RE[3]: Study paid by Microsoft
by rockwell on Mon 4th May 2009 16:06
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Member since:2005-09-13
Member since:
2005-07-06
Ooops, seems you forgot to attach the evidence backing up your claims. You do have them right?