LJ Index, February 2006
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- Number of Linux videos found by Google Video's public beta on November 8, 2005: 13
- Number of Linux videos found by Yahoo in November 8, 2005: 2441
- Percent annual Linux growth rate: 25.9
- $Billions in Linux business revenues in 2005: 20
- Projected $Billions in Linux business revenues in 2008: 40
- Number of members in OSDL: 80
- Number of members in the new Open Invention Network: 5
- Number of members of the new LiPS (Linux Phone Standard): 10
- Number of memers of CELF (Consumer Electronics Linux Forum): 53
- The actual dollar price that children will be charged for the $100 laptop from the One Laptop Per Child Program: 0
- Millions of $100 laptops planned for production late this year or early next: 10
- $Millions donated to the OLPC program by Red Hat, AMD, Google, News Corp. and Brightstar Corp., apiece: 2
- Low estimate millions of kids expected to receive a $100 laptop: 100
- High estimate millions of kids expected to receive a $100 laptop: 150
- $Price reportedly offered by Steve Jobs for OS X, for the laptops: 0
- Percentage of the world to which AMD plans to bring Internet and computing access by 2015: 50
- Total millions of PCs expected to ship in 2005: 200
- Minimum laptop percentage of total 2005 PC shipments: 50
- Number of results in a WalMart.com search for "Linux": 314
- Lowest-$priced Linux (Linspire) PC sold at WalMart.com: 219.84
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Sources: 1, video.google.com; 2, Yahoo.com; 3-5, International Data Corp., via Open Invention Network; 6, OSDL; 7, Open Invention Network; 8, Linux Devices; 9, CELF; 10-16, Wall Street Journal; 17-18, theInquirer.net; 19-20, WalMart.com.
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