From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Apr 2 10:19:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF72537B71E for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:19:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA1F12; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:24:32 -0700 Message-ID: <3AC8B495.6A4131F@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 10:19:17 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Freebsd-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5th in survey of used Linux distributions ! References: <001201c0b99f$52c8bdc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Consider that the gaffe has probably given them far more > publicity than if the report was correctly done, so I > wouldn't shed any tears. I'm not sure it was a complete gaffe. They asked Linux developers what systems (plural) they used. It seems logical to me that 20% of them would have FreeBSD on a secondary partition. Heck, I even know one guy who uses FreeBSD as his *primary* system for Linux development! Knowing that 20% of Linux developers use FreeBSD is valuable marketing information. If I were Inprise/Borland, for example, and bought this report, I would know that I need to get Kylix ported to FreeBSD. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message