- Percentage of computers that have been kicked or mauled by their users: 25
- Size in $billions of Microsoft's cash hoard, as of May, 2001: 30
- Rate in $billions/month at which Microsoft's cash hoard is growing: 1
- Percentage increase in Microsoft's stock price in 2001 through May 30: 62
- Number of simultaneous conversaions possible when Marconi made his first xmission: 1
- Number possible now, in trillions: 1
- Years in which this number doubles: 2.5
- Number of square kilometers of land in the world: 148,940,000
- Number of simulataneous conversations per square kilometer: 6,714
- Number of pages Google finds containing the phrase "open source": 1,930,000
- Number of pages Google finds containing the phrase "free software": 1,150,000
- Number of pages Google finds containing the phrase "Eric Raymond": 26,100
- Number of pages Google finds containing the phrase "Eric S. Raymond": 30,100
- Number of pages Google finds containing the phrase "Richard Stallman": 54,300
- Number of pages Google finds containing the phrase "Richard M.Stallman" 11,600
- Number of pages Google finds containing the phrase "Copyleft": 176,000
- Number of pages Google finds containing the phrase "GNU/Linux": 446,000
- Number of pages Google finds containing the word "Linux": 26,500,000
- Linux shipments as a percentage of all server shipments in Q3 2000, according to Gartner: 9
- Linux as a percentage of the total server market, accoring to IDC: 27
- Percentage of respondents who say they are "already using Linux, according to AllNetResearch: 39
- Percent IBM Linux revenue growth: 128
- Percent revenue increase for Linux shipments from 1999-2000: 28
- Projected Linux server installed base in 2005: 21,006,000
Sources: 1, Wired News; 2-4, Time Magazine; 5-7, Martin Cooper, CEO, ArrayComm and inventor of the mobile phone; 8, CIA World Factbook; 9, mathematics; 10-18, Google, 11 June 2001; 19, Gartner Group; 20, International Data Corp.; 21, Internet.com.; 22, IBM; 23-24, International Data Corp.