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"Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:11:01 -0500, DanS wrote:

"Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:36:29 -0500, DanS wrote:

DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I'm not disputing your public library or your personal experiences.
I'm just telling you about my experiences. NOT ONCE have I ever seen
Linux in use in a personal computer in my fairly normal day to day
life. Not in my library, not in the homes of my friends, not at the
coffee shop, not at the airport or on flights, not in the retail
stores I go to, not in the computer oriented stores small and large
I
go to, not in emails from my friends and acquaintances. The ONLY
place
I ever hear about Linux is on newsgroups and tech blogs.

I would however be curious about your "multitude" of examples
because
I just don't see a multitude of anything when it comes to Linux.
Certainly the adoption figures I see bantered about the internet do
not support use of the word multitude. Your relatively small and
geographically isolated community in Idaho may indeed have a bigger
adoption rate for linux for whatever reasons but I sure don't see
that
in many other places.

I found this interesting.....

http://hitachi-id.com/linux-biz/

(Not knowing how old this is.)

Seems to be from 2003, so maybe not relevant.

From the site you linked to:
"As of 2008-03-23, there are 717 entries in this list."

Although it's old (472 days, a bit over a year and a quarter), it's not
2003 :-)

Geez....how the hell did I come up with 2003 ?!?!?!?!

I think you're used to a different order of fields in the date. There is
that 03 in the middle and the 3 at the end (yeah, there's a 2 there too).

I do that sort of thing a lot, like the headline says "President rejects
new proposal" and at first I see it as "President rejects new
prostitute"...

Do you think that the President would reject a new prostitute?


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