Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 20, 2002 12:42 AM
At my house, there is one Windows 98 machine, two Linux boxes, one Mac. I have purchased 2 copies of Win 98, 1 copy of Linux, no copies of the Mac OS.
One of the Win machines now runs Linux, the Mac was given to me used with the OS already on it.
Now, what does that tell you about how accurate OS counts are? Multiply me by some large multiple because most Linux users put it on top of some version of Windows. All the Windows sales get counted, but only the initial Linux sale (if, indeed, they don't start life as a download). However, there is no way to count how many copies of Windows were over-written with Linux.
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Re:I think your right!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 20, 2002 12:42 AMOne of the Win machines now runs Linux, the Mac was given to me used with the OS already on it.
Now, what does that tell you about how accurate OS counts are? Multiply me by some large multiple because most Linux users put it on top of some version of Windows. All the Windows sales get counted, but only the initial Linux sale (if, indeed, they don't start life as a download). However, there is no way to count how many copies of Windows were over-written with Linux.
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