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Re: Linux World Map

#11

Post by viyyer » Fri, May 13, 2011, 3:34 PM UTC

Wonder where android would fit in this picture ?

Re: Linux World Map

#12

Post by asolove » Fri, May 13, 2011, 4:27 PM UTC

How did they leave off "Upstream vendor"?

Re: Linux World Map

#13

Post by sciurus » Fri, May 13, 2011, 4:32 PM UTC

viyyer wrote: post #11

Wonder where android would fit in this picture ?

It would be much too large for this picture.

Re: Linux World Map

#14

Post by squeezingswirls » Fri, May 13, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

It could have been a funny map but every time someone tries to relate Linux with communism or other totalitarianism $deity kills a $pet.

Once and for all: Linux is about Freedom!

Re: Linux World Map

#15

Post by spodek » Fri, May 13, 2011, 5:13 PM UTC

viyyer wrote: post #11

Wonder where android would fit in this picture ?

In the large Android Sea in the middle left.

Re: Linux World Map

#16

Post by etcet » Fri, May 13, 2011, 5:49 PM UTC

chao- wrote: post #7

It would have been more interesting if the sizes had been based on some approximation of downloads/users/market share. The xkcd map, although a guess in some places, attempted to be grounded in something empirical.

> approximation of downloads/users/market share

do such metrics exist?

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