On Wed, 30 May 2001, Mike Hicks wrote: > > Probably the scariest thing for Microsoft is the fact that they have no > idea how many Linux desktops are out there. This is true. It's tough to judge how many people are using linux because A) it's free, and there's no registration of any kind and B) most people who run linux don't BUY PCs. We can almost assume that if Joe Consumer purchases a case, mobo, and CPU there will probably be a linux install somewhere on the machine. He may use Window$ 99% of the time but chances are he's heard of linux and is starting to play with it. So I find that 1% estimate to be incredibly skewed. I'm assuming that's based on sales from Dell, Compaq, VA, Penguin computing, etc which all sell boxen built for serving, not end users. The amount of those systems actually running Gnome is probably quite small, and therefore the 1% estimate. -Brian