CREDITS

The Counter would have been impossible without the efforts of a great many people.
In particular, we would like to thank:

Patrick Reijnen, who designed the first Web page;
Gramo (Ricardo Naranjo_Faccini) from Colombia, who designed the Linux Counter Logo, based on the "Tux" logo by Larry Ewing;
Denis Havlik, who organized the Logo Contest, among his many other contributions to the project;
Hans Kwint, who created the 2005 version of the "estimating the number of Linux users" page
The Linux Counter Board of the Organization;
The Linux Counter Country Managers;
(lots of more people belong here!)

Hardware support

We have been supported in real, hard things by:

UNINETT, who permitted me to run the initial counter on their hardware and bandwidth until the end of 1997, and has provided the bandwidth again from August 2000;
EDB Maxware, who provided machine power from Jan-98 until October 1999, and network connectivity from Jan-98 until August 2000;
Compaq, who provided the new Alpha server that is the home of the counter since October 1999;
Linpro, who provided the Pentium PC that now serves as the Counter's database backend.

Unlike the hardware, most of these contributors don't know they've contributed. But they deserve to be listed!

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