The myth of 1% Linux market share.

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 07:25:19PM -0500, David van Geest wrote

> That's all well and good, but the most common method of measuring OS
> share is based on the User Agent string from connecting web clients.

  Let's not forget some idiot websites that deliberately block browsers
with client strings other than IE, even though Firefox on Mozilla is
perfectly capable of rendering them.  It's not as bad as it used to be,
but there are still some sites that do it.  Linux users who still want
to go to those websites masquarade their user agents as IE on Windows in
order to get in.  Since it's a pain to remember to change user agents
each time they visit, these linux users will simply leave their user
agents set to IE on Windows all the time.  This is another factor that
skews statistics.

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