From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 4 04:27:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE7616A4D1 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 04:27:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org) Received: from mail.bitfreak.org (mail.bitfreak.org [65.75.198.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA32D43D46 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 04:27:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org) Received: from [10.242.169.24] (c-67-171-135-169.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.135.169]) by mail.bitfreak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626A717594; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:27:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44826114.8050002@bitfreak.org> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:27:00 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: illoai@gmail.com References: <20060602145855.GA1481@scienceclue.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is FreeBSD popularity decreasing ?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:27:06 -0000 illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 6/2/06, Mathieu Prevot flod: >> Hello, > > The generally linear downward trend in FreeBSD > use since the advent of the "*BSD is dying" troll > on slashdot nearly a decade ago conclusively > demostrates that FreeBSD currently has a negative > number of users. It's a side effect of the modern computing culture. The number of users complaining about instability, security holes and API stability is a direct measure of the size of the userbase. There aren't any multi-million dollar businesses doing nothing but selling third-party utility development and technical support for FreeBSD, so it must obviously be dead, dying or not in use. :) -- Darren Pilgrim