On 2007-10-28, Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah - although the poll is really about Macs, so the two Mac related
options are bound to get disproportionately high counts.
I've read on a few occasions that linux has as much market penetration
as the mac these days, although I don't recall if that's desktops or
combined desktops and server rooms (where macs are vanishingly rare).
I also can't be bothered to look up my sources ;-)
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