{"id":352,"date":"2003-12-03T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/free_software\/politics\/sign_of_the_times.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"sign_of_the_times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2003\/12\/03\/sign_of_the_times","title":{"rendered":"Sign of the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;m back at <a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/the_web\/maxfield.html\">Maxfield&#8217;s House of Caffeine<\/a>, my favorite caffeinated wireless access point, and I&#8217;m noticing several other laptops running GNU\/Linux. I think any attempt to quantify free software adoption statistically is going to be flawed by the simple fact that market purchases are likely only a tiny fraction of actual uses. (You could make a similar argument vis-a-vis proprietary software since so much is pirated; but I&#8217;m willing to make an ad hoc guess that the pirated proprietary software &#8220;market&#8221; corresponds closely to the legitimate purchase market). At least in areas like San Francisco, I suspect the desktop\/laptop usage of GNU\/Linux is much higher than statistics suggest (e.g., see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/news\/article\/0,aid,113069,00.asp\" title=\"PCWorld.com - Is the Age of Desktop Linux Approaching?\">Is the Age of Desktop Linux Approaching?<\/a><a class=\"webcache\" title=\"Locally Cached Version\" href=\"\/adam\/cache\/free_software\/sign_of_the_times.txt\/retrieve\/http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/news\/article\/0,aid,113069,00.asp\">&#183;<\/a>, suggesting that only one percent of desktops run GNU\/Linux). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back at Maxfield&#8217;s House of Caffeine, my favorite caffeinated wireless access point, and I&#8217;m noticing several other laptops running GNU\/Linux. I think any attempt to quantify free software adoption statistically is going to be flawed by the simple fact that market purchases are likely only a tiny fraction of actual uses. (You could make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}