On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Richard Soule wrote:
> > Wish I could figure out how...
>
> Didn't MS try something like this?
No, I meant I wish I could figure out they run Debian. I couldn't get it to
work. (I'm running slackware now). And there is a website that tries to
keep a count of Linux users. Checl out http://counter.li.org
>
> They embedded stuff into their code that reported back to MS your
> configuration and system information. They didn't tell anyone about it
> and it caused an uproar when it was found.
>
> We *could* do something in an open source way (which means 'everyone
> would know') to 'register' linux use when there was an internet
> connection on the machine, but it seems like there are some serious
> privacy concerns.
>
> Rich
>
> Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Thomas M. Albright wrote:
> > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> > >
> > > > I found this to be a fairly good article. It's about the current trends in
> > > > Linux companies, and what the future could hold for them. The one thing
> > > > that I didn't like was that they completely ignored Debian. I assume this
> > > > is because Debian isn't a company, but I find it hard to believe that 70%
> > > > of all Linux systems are RedHat.
> > > >
> > > Actually that's true. I don't remeber the study, but RedHat dominates
> > > the Commercial Linux market in the US, SuSE dominates the German
> > > Commercial market, but Debian dominates the non-commercial market, and
> > > in fact, more *people* use Debian.
> >
> > Wish I could figure out how...
> >
> > >
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