From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 30 03:48:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA17940 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 03:48:25 -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 DAA17934 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 03:48:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA03580; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 04:48:12 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199804301048.EAA03580@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1.329 (Beta) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 04:48:08 -0600 To: dg@root.com, jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Correction for Caldera article Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804300611.XAA13168@implode.root.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David: You have a point. But nonetheless, I think you'll agree that the statement "Linux was the only operating system not owned by Microsoft that gained market share in 1997" is incorrect. This is what should be made clear to the author. I've given him Jordan's address, but input from you as well would help.... --Brett At 11:11 PM 4/29/98 -0700, David Greenman wrote: > Who said that Linux sales were flat? I certainly didn't. I said that >Slackware sales _growth_ was linear rather than exponential. Based on >comments from Linus, sales _growth_ has declined for Linux in general. >...but let me say again one more time: Linux is still growing and at >a reasonable pace, just not exponential like it used to be. This is not >my opinion, but what the people who should know have said in the recent >past. > Quite honestly, it doesn't bother me at all if Linux growth was fast >and furious. In fact, I'd be _worried_ if it declined to 0 growth (or worse, >lose market share), since this would indicate that the size of the "unix" >market is limited and relatively small, and would mean that Microsoft >has won. > >-DG > >David Greenman >Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > >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