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and centre, I wonder just WHERE these people are getting their stats from. They claim Linux desktops are static or decreasing, but it's during a period when European agencies are switching to Linux and Unix by the bucket load. I also know of groups of people in third world countries putting Linux on used equipment due to not being able to afford legal copies of Windows and the pressure to clean up pirate copies has had an effect in their area.

I strongly suspect the stats are based mainly on US usage and possibly on units sold with Linux preloaded, which means they aren't truly representative of the world usage.