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From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
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To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 
> David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> writes:
> 
> > Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >
> > >     Much depends on what you want to measure. Several of the BSDs (FreeBSD,
> > >     NetBSD, and OpenBSD) are OSS/FS as well; so at least a portion of the 6.3%
> > >     for BSD should be added to Linux's 28.5% to determine the percentage of
> > >     OSS/FS operating systems being used as web servers.
> > >
> > > What does he mean 'at least a portion'?  Is BSD open source or not?  It can't
> > > be 'partially open source'.
> >
> > BSD/OS is closed source.
> 
> Well, I hate being anal retentive, but he didn't mention BSD/OS anywhere.
> He only mentioned open source BSD's.

Look up above. He said that several of the BSD's were open source, then
mentioned those that were. He did not mention which ones were not open
source, someone asked, so I replied. The stats he gave did not
distinguish between open and closed source platforms, so the numbers for
BSD may very well have included BSD/OS.

David

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