From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 29 18:11:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA23212 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 18:11:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA23182 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 18:10:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from giffuni.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.48]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with SMTP id AAA1986; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 20:13:39 +0500 Message-ID: <3547CF5C.41C67EA6@asme.org> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 20:09:48 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Kelly CC: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Correction for Caldera article References: <199804291743.LAA22012@lariat.lariat.org> <199804291743.LAA22012@lariat.lariat.org> <199804291954.NAA23676@lariat.lariat.org> <354bb6cb.180295152@mail.cetlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Once again: the original claim, based on something Linus said, is that (all) Linux is growing linearly (no one said "nearly-flat") while FreeBSD still grows exponentially. It's also a fact that FreeBSD is now more popular than Slackware Linux. The rest is mere speculation...(hopefully WC will now focus on more FreeBSD related products? ;-). Pedro. John Kelly wrote: > > 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. > > 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