> I think that it depends on what your demographic is. If you > are talking about people who barely know how to switch on a > computer, then you are going to get windows users. For > people who actually use a computer for what it is intended, > then, for instance in the scientific community, 50% of people > use Macs because of the UNIX base, then 30% are Linux users > and the rest use Windows.
Wow... It takes you back to the old days where the great divided UNIX armies were BSD and System V ... .. Oh right, Mac OS/X is BSD ... Linux a rewrite of Sys V... La plus ca change la plus la difference. As for "for what it is intended" can I refer sir to the History Of The Internet please, because at the epoch, UNIX begat TCP/IP... > > Cheers, > Matt > > Thank you to those who donated to my rowing challenge. We > managed to raise over £3000 ($6000) for Teesside Hospice. > > England expects that every man will do his duty - Admiral > Horatio Lord Nelson, 21st October 1805 > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > ---------------- > Matthew A. C. Lamont > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WNSL - West, Room 309 phone: (203) 432 5834 > Physics Department, Yale University fax: (203) 432 8926 > P.O. Box 208124 > 272 Whitney Avenue > New Haven, CT 06520-8124, USA > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > ----------------- > > > > On 30 Mar 2007, at 08:11, Kirk Northrop wrote: > > > Andy wrote: > >> I can see how it got Netscape, FireFox is derived from the > Netscape > >> code base, but how it got from the word "Linux" into the > word Mac I > >> don't know. And this was for a user agent that was stating > it's OS as > >> Linux. > > > > Simple - Not Windows probably means Mac OS. In a tiny > amount of cases > > it means Linux, or DOS or OS/2 etc, but even this is a tiny > percentage > > compared to Mac OS, and anyone using such an OS is likely > to be tech > > minded. > > > > -- > > From the North, this is Kirk > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > > please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/ > > mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail- > > archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.22/739 - Release > Date: 29/03/2007 13:36 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.22/739 - Release Date: 29/03/2007 13:36 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
