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From: chris@vespucci.iquest.com (Chris Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,alt.pud
Subject: User Count (was Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Date: 17 Dec 1995 09:41:39 -0600
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In article <4au4fo$pbo@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>In article <4att23$mha@agate.berkeley.edu>,
>Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>statistical basis for those percentages.  Again, I'll suggest that
>you read ftp://aun.uninett.no/pub/misc/linux-counter/README.ESTIMATES
>for more information why the person who maintains the counter believes

Hey Nick I got a have a slight problem with your linux counter. Now stay 
with me on this because it may startle you a bit.

How does it provide for people who no longer run linux?

*gee* if I wanted an estimate of people who had used linux once or even 
for a little while I guess your source would be valid. But you want a 
current number it seems from your discussion.
-- 
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