[ILUG] how to really help opensource

[Lars Hecking]

P at draigBrady.com writes:
> Well getting the web browser to be opensource is
> the most important step I think, so I would
> encourage you to send this link to as many Microsoft
> Internet Explorer users as possible.
> 
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/switch.html
> 
> Most people I've sent it to have tried it and
> have been very grateful.

 I think "it" is already happening, witness the recent finding that M$IE
 lost 1% market share (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116848,00.asp).

 Our own web server stats, although I would never consider them
 representative for the rest of thw web, kind of support this view.
 The stats show that about 92% of connecting systems are running Windows,
 but only 87.3% as using IE. Even the figure for netscape doesn't explain
 the difference, so there must be at least a few people out there using
 Mozilla/Firefox on Windoze (hhm, I could probably get exact figures by
 trailing through the logs manually ...).

 Windows     92%
 Unknown      2.9%
 Macintosh    2.1%
 Linux        1.2%
 Sun Solaris  0.6%

 MSIE     87.3%
 Mozilla   5.7%
 Netscape  3.2%
 Firefox   1.1%
 Safari    0.9%
 Opera     0.8%
 Unknown   0.4%