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<TITLE>Linux Information Sheet: Who uses Linux?</TITLE>
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<H2><A NAME="s5">5. Who uses Linux?</A></H2>
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<P>Linux is freely available, and no one is required to register their
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copies with any central authority, so it is difficult to know how many
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people use Linux. Several businesses now survive solely on
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selling and supporting Linux, and the Linux newsgroups are some
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of the most heavily read on the internet, so the number is likely in
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the millions, but firm numbers are hard to come by. The best
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market research currently indicates between 7.5 and 11 million
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users.
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<P>One brave soul, Harald T. Alvestrand
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<Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>, has decided to try to count
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Linux users the hard way: one by one. If you
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are willing to be counted as a Linux user, please use the web forms
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available at
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<A HREF="http://counter.li.org/">http://counter.li.org/</A> Alternatively, you can
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send a message to linux-counter@uninett.no with one of the following
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subjects: `I use Linux at home', `I use Linux at work', or `I use Linux
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at home and at work'. He will also accept `third-party' registrations;
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ask him for details.
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<P>He posts his counts to
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<A HREF="news:comp.os.linux.misc">news:comp.os.linux.misc</A> each month;
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they are also available from
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<A HREF="http://counter.li.org/">http://counter.li.org/</A>.
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