JOSM enhancements vs. separate plugin

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Fri, 11 May 2018, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

>> BSD     ~  0%
>> Mac     ~  8%
>> Linux   ~ 27%
>> Windows ~ 65%
>
> Thank you. For comparison, these are numbers for market share and the
> difference to JOSM (April 2018) [1]:
>
> BSD 0%  (the same, either they are very niche or they are in the 2,45%
> unknown and use an OS that effectively protects them from revealing their OS)
> OSX 13,2% JOSM has 40% less OSX users compared to their supposed market
> share Linux 1,7% JOSM has 1588% of Linux users ...
> Win 81,7% JOSM has 20% less Win users
>
> these are alternative numbers [2]
>
> BSD 0.01 %
> OSX 8,7%  -> -8%
> Linux 2,3 % -> 1174%
> Windows 88,6 % -> -27%

These numbers had always a systematic bias towards Windows. They are a 
sales marketshare and not a realistic representation of OS usage. E.g. all 
my private and nearly all the company computers I bought are counted as 
Windows systems, but they all operate under Linux. Only for embedded or 
industrial systems and servers it actually makes sense to buy a system 
without preinstalled Windows. But even these are probably not counted as 
Linux systems.

So probably JOSM's numbers are simply more realistic. That MacOS numbers 
are similar is a good indicator for that assumption.

Ciao
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