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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web page
In-Reply-To: <20988.876811315@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 13, 97 11:41:55 pm"
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:49:06 -0500 (EST)
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Jordan K. Hubbard said:
> > Question to all, particularly jkh:  This guy claims 6,000,000 users of
> > Linux, obviously a very optimistic figure.  If we're optimistic, how
> > high could we push the number of FreeBSD users without leaving the
> > realms of reality?
> 
> Considering that the 6M figure has already left the realm of reality
> far, far behind, I guess we could say that we had 3 million users with
> equal justification.  It wouldn't change the fact that it was utterly
> false, of course, but if you're trying to compete on an equal footing,
> well... :-)
> 
Ahhh... they must be counting a user as a WWW page hit :-).

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