[pchelpers] Re: Wuz Ekhart here?

Hi Scott

> I saw this article today, 

I guess you meant this one: 
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/96601/96601.html

Which is apparently summarising this report:
http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-us/browsers-barometer/firefox-july-2007/index-1-2-3-102.html

Even more interesting is this one:
http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-us/browsers-barometer/ie7-and-firefox-2-july-2007/index-1-2-3-103.html
Browser War: FF2 pulls ahead of IE7 in Europe

> and thought "Wow, 45.5%, no wonder Ekhart's
> been too busy to post here!!"

Actually, i just sit and watch the wild pace of development here in 
Finland. Most of my efforts to tell people about open source 
alternatives have been directed to hinterlanders outside Finland. Once i 
complained to the Finnish tax authorities that their website was broken 
in Firefox and Opera, and they soon fixed it...

I'm purposely usually a few years behind the average Finn in buying any 
new technology, which means i don't pay outrageous prices for stuff that 
doesn't work yet and still get most new technology a few years ahead of 
the average European and US American.

It's fun living in a country of technology buffs, especially since Finns 
are not interested only in gadgets and don't neglect other aspects of 
culture. Finns are for example also worldwide number one or two in 
library use, newspaper reading, music school enrollment, scholastic 
achievement, first widespread adoption of mobile phones, the Internet, 
text messages, and other technologies, etc. It's also no coincidence 
that Linux was started in Finland by a Finn.

I last posted about this topic in May 2005, when Firefox use in Finland 
was already at 30.9%:
http://www.xitimonitor.com/fr-FR/Technique/Firefox_Avril_2005/index-1-1-3-44.html

> Now I'm wondering what the population of Finland is, so I can do the
> math... :)

It's about 5,3 million, in other words about one thousandth of the 
world's population. But they've succeeded in producing the world's 
biggest mobile phone company and the first challenger to Windows with a 
chance of succeeding, so it's no wonder they're number one in Firefox 
use too.




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