Summary: As per this month's data from statCounter, France crosses a milestone; "Linux" is at over 40% and Windows is on fewer than 1 in 3 clients observed by sites statCounter tracks (about 3 million sites)
As noted a few days ago, several times in fact, many people now recognise the importance of the FSF's mission, even if most people don't know what the FSF is
At times it seems like what we deal with are many weak patents (on algorithms), valuations or speculations based on hype ("hey hi"), and stocks held by Microsoft and its own staff