Ruphus13 writes "Linux afresh achieved 1% market share of the overall operating costs system market. But, does that statistic really mean anything at all useful? This article makes the case that it doesn't. It states, 'Framed in the "overall market share" terminology, the hash (or how it was gathered and calculated) isn't inevitably questionable, it's more that it's meaningless. It's nebulous, even when one looks at several months worth of data. [How] Linux is used in various occupation settings answers an actual question — and the answer can be used to ask further questions, form opinions — and maybe one day even explain to some degree what 1% of the market share really means. ... operating expenses systems aren't immortal beings, and by rights, there can't be (there shouldn't be) only one. ... No one system can be sum to everyone, and no one system (however powerful, or stable) can do everything thoroughly that just one person might require of it in the course of a day. While observing trends and measuring market share are important, the results (good or bad) shouldn't be any platform's measure of self-worth or validation. It's a data point to build on (we're weak in this area, strong in this area, our scaffold is being used a lot more this quarter, where did all of our users go?) in order to improve and stay relevant.'"

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