From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 29 17:50:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19871 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:50:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19699 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:49:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01631; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 19:49:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199804300049.TAA01631@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Correction for Caldera article In-Reply-To: <354bb6cb.180295152@mail.cetlink.net> from John Kelly at "Apr 29, 98 11:28:32 pm" To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 19:49:40 -0500 (EST) Cc: brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:54:02 -0600, 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. > > Only at Walnut Creek, because they sell Slackware which fewer buyers > nowdays are interested in. I have not seen or heard any real evidence > that Linux sales are flat, except for the testimony of a few FreeBSD > boosters. > The only way that Linux's sales are flat, is by the 1st derivative. We are suggesting that the 2nd derivative is smaller. Their market WILL commercially saturate, due to the (relative) inapplicability of the license. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message