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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc: Ian Struble <ian@majesticnet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG,
        Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, jkb <jkb@best.com>,
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Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p
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On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 09:42:11PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> In the Oct 13 NetworkWorld on pg 21, there is a figure of 3-10 million linux
>> users worldwide, so this 6 million figure may be a reasonable number.  There
>
> Hmph.  "We have approximately 3 million users, possibly even as many
> as 10 million, so I guess we'll set a reasonable estimate at 6
> million."
>
> Say what?  Am I the only one who's twigged to the number game going on
> here? :-)

I don't think you can be that sure about the upper and lower limits.
I'd say there must be at least 25,000, because we've counted them.
But are you sure that there are no more than 10,000,000?  How can you
be sure?  I'd say it's possible that there are 20,000,000.

Of course, I can't be sure about that, either.  Let's split the
difference (20,000,000 + 25,000)/2 = 10,000,000 within the limits of
measurement error :-)

Greg