[ILUG] how to really help opensource

[P at draigBrady.com]

Lars Hecking wrote:
> 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).

M$ have already realised they dropped the ball
and are starting up the IE dev team again:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/07/22.html#a7982
This is an opportunity not to be missed. Spread the firefox word!

>  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%

Thanks for that. Note also that many people spoof their
useragent string to be allowed into sites. This guy
suggests up to 18% of "IE" users do this:
http://webtips.dan.info/brand-x/useragent.html

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