Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:06:29 -0700 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products Message-ID: <19980414000629.46799@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <19980414162049.F1870@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 04:20:49PM %2B0930 References: <19980414015920.30944@snark.thyrsus.com> <199804140618.XAA15623@implode.root.com> <19980413234027.16223@mooseriver.com> <19980414162049.F1870@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 04:20:49PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Mon, 13 April 1998 at 23:40:27 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 11:18:55PM -0700, David Greenman wrote: > >>> That said, you've done the best job of anyone here of raising doubt > >>> about my pessimistic BSD-will-die scenario in my mind. That figure of > >>> 25,000 registered users is very encouraging. > >> > >> If we use the same yardsticks that Linux does to estimate installed base, > >> then FreeBSD would be on about 500,000 machines. No joke. > > > > I am confused. Could you explain what yardstick Linux uses? > > Only slightly simplified: > > "Well, if everybody who should be using Linux really does use it, we > might have 20,000,000 users. I'd guess that only about 1/4 of them > really do, so Linux must have 5,000,000 users". > Now, that is an interesting way to estimate ones installed base. I guess I was sleeping when this technique was discussed in my Probability and Statistics class in college. ;-) Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.5 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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