From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 26 16:51:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B5E16A406 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from achilles.leela.ws (achilles.leela.ws [66.207.162.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA85713C483 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.0.249] ([158.145.111.132]) (authenticated bits=0) by achilles.leela.ws (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0QGoxMv072663 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:51:00 -0900 (AKST) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Message-ID: <45BA316C.3070903@mac.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:50:52 -0900 From: "Peter A. Giessel" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Tournoij References: <1169791677.29783.12.camel@localhost> <20070126094241.GA77116@glitch.carpetsmoker.net> In-Reply-To: <20070126094241.GA77116@glitch.carpetsmoker.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The BBC survey.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:51:02 -0000 On 2007/01/26 0:42, Martin Tournoij seems to have typed: > It's probably more than 90%, the last study I saw (~2 years ago) said > that 98% of the users used windows. That survey is clearly wrong. With Apple pulling 4-5% of the (new) market, and the average time between replacements being higher with MacOS over Windows, the absolute largest percentage that use Windows would be 96%. Any number higher than that is clearly wrong. That assumes everybody who doesn't buy a Mac runs Windows. So that would be 0.0% market share for every variant of Linux and every variant of BSD. Assume a higher than 0.0% market share for the open source OS's and the maximum value for windows further declines. My gut feeling is that the 90% number is about right, but I would believe anything from 85%-94%. Any higher than 94% can't be right. There are obviously more than zero BSD and Linux users. :)