From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 29 17:22:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14783 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:22:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [129.72.251.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14635 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:21:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26926; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 18:20:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199804300020.SAA26926@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1.329 (Beta) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 18:20:46 -0600 To: Malartre From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Correction for Caldera article Cc: Frank Pawlak , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3547A07E.4307EAF@aei.ca> References: <199804291743.LAA22012@lariat.lariat.org> <199804291743.LAA22012@lariat.lariat.org> <199804291954.NAA23676@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, even if that were so, FreeBSD would *still* be gaining market share, so the statement in the article would still be incorrect! --Brett At 05:49 PM 4/29/98 -0400, you wrote: >Well, maybe Linux Slackware sales are flat, go see Caldera and RedHat: They >will not reply that! > >Malartre > >Brett Glass wrote: > >> Walnut Creek CD-ROM sells both FreeBSD and Linux. As documented in >> earlier messages on this mailing list, sales of FreeBSD are increasing >> while sales of Linux are nearly flat. >> >> --Brett >> >> At 02:49 PM 4/29/98 -0500, Frank Pawlak wrote: >> >> >Brett, >> > >> >Where is it documented that FreeBSD is growing faster than Linux? I'm not >> debating you on this issue, but it would be good to see numbers that are >> somewhat more firm than jello. >> > >> >Frank >> > >> > >> >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** >> > >> >On 4/29/98, at 2:18 PM, Brett Glass wrote: >> > >> >>In an article at >> >> >> >>http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/980427h.html >> >> >> >>Will Rodger (rodger@worldnet.att.net) states: >> >> >> >>"Linux was the only operating system not owned by Microsoft >> >>that gained market share in 1997." >> >> >> >>This is obviously incorrect, since in fact FreeBSD has -- >> >>at least percentagewise -- been gaining market share >> >>FASTER than Linux. >> >> >> >>Members of this list should ask Will to correct his article by >> >>adding a mention of FreeBSD. >> >> >> >>--Brett >> >> >> >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message >> > >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > > >-- >-------------------------------------------------- >malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 >www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project >Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.6 >-------------------------------------------------- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message