Fedora stats offer insight into Linux usage

[Gian Paolo Mureddu]

Rahul Sundaram escribió:
> Hi,
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> http://www.linux.com/feature/118197
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> Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier talks with Fedora's Max Spevack about some 
> recently released statistics. "The Fedora Project offered a peek under 
> its kimono recently with details about Fedora 7 adoption and other 
> statistics. Fedora 7 has snagged more than 300,000 users since its 
> release at the end of May. While that sounds pretty good, Fedora Core 
> 6 managed to attract more than 400,000 in roughly the same amount of 
> time after its release. We asked Max Spevack, the Fedora project 
> leader, whether the numbers are telling the full story."
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> Rahul
>
Excellent! This shows one more time the Fedora's leadership at taking 
initiative to not only have an Open Source Software distribution, but 
also Open Source Information. I wonder a couple of things, though:

* Will RHEL include such methods to also measure system use? Or is there 
no need for this as it is "subscription based"?
* How are the efforts to convince other distributions to also add to the 
smolt and others statistics efforts initiated by Fedora?
* Do we envision a "global" statistics center where developers, hardware 
vendors, software vendors, distributors could look at in a future and 
better target their:
    * Products.
    * Development efforts.
    * Bug tracking systems.
    * Expected user base for a given product or service.

This really looks very nice! Go, go Fedora!