We apologise in advance for being a tad repetitive, but we continue to discover some little nuggets of information which are worth exploring in another post that touches on this subject.
“IDC is another warning sign.”At the moment, they only track over 1,000 People (largely GNU/Linux users), but they use the black art of statistics to over-inflate these figures and share numbers at the scale of hundreds of thousands. That's a bad sign. It's like "Microsoft statistics" (recall the market share lie), which are about dishonesty at best and gaming (mischievous intervention) at worst.
The company is also run by a Microsoftie (former nonetheless). It makes you wonder it's a monitoring/spying project for self-serving 'studies' (follow the money, i.e. sponsorship) or polite software patents claims. Some bloggers say that it's safer to ignore OpenLogic and shun its census at this stage. In fact, watch this newer article on this subject:
The Census, started in April by OpenLogic with help from IDC and other sponsors, relies on anonymous scans of computers to count open source installations with software called OSS Discovery.