Statistics to be published
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| Author | Content |
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| Abe Oct 02, 2007 8:23 AM EDT |
This is what is needed to see how FOSS is growing. Tectonic is a technical site and doesn't give a good indication about the rate of FOSS is flourishing. What is needed is to have the majority of popular Internet sites to publish the same. The best reasonably accurate statistics would come from Google. I am not sure why they don't distribute them. Any one knows or have an idea why they don't? |
| Bob_Robertson Oct 02, 2007 12:13 PM EDT |
> Any one knows or have an idea why they don't? Can you imagine anyone with lots of money that would not want that information published? |
| tracyanne Oct 02, 2007 1:03 PM EDT |
Maybe they aren't all that accurate, I for one block Google Analytics. |
| Bob_Robertson Oct 02, 2007 1:49 PM EDT |
oh there you go, ruining my conspiracy theory. |
| beirwin Oct 02, 2007 3:58 PM EDT |
Google dropped the OS stats. in May 2004 j (good old Internet Archive came to the rescue here) just as Linux was really beginning to be a force to reckon with. We emailed Google about this but never received a reply. Barbara |
| Sander_Marechal Oct 02, 2007 11:47 PM EDT |
Such stats undervalue Firefox and Linux anyway. There are lots of people using user-agent switcher to report as IE6/Win in order to work around buggy websites doing javascript browser sniffing. |
| Abe Oct 03, 2007 9:32 AM EDT |
Quoting:There are lots of people using user-agent switcher to report as IE6/Win in order to work around buggy websites doing javascript browser sniffing.True, on the other hand, this is becoming less by the day. The statistics released by Tectonic certainly shows decent percentages for FF & Linux and most people who |
| Sander_Marechal Oct 03, 2007 1:15 PM EDT |
...who? I think the rest of your post got eaten. Yes. It does show decent percentages. But the actual percentage is even higher. That's all I wanted to add here. |
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