From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 30 04:23:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA24164 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 04:23:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA23927 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 04:21:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA18862; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 04:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804301120.EAA18862@implode.root.com> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) cc: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Correction for Caldera article In-reply-to: Your message of "30 Apr 1998 13:05:11 +0200." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 04:20:47 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >David Greenman writes: >> 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. > >You don't seem to take into account the situation where Linux would be >losing market shares... to FreeBSD. This is true...but I'll be happy as long as FreeBSD's growth continues to be exponential. :-) This obviously can't continue forever, but I think we have a few years yet before growth will start slowing down - especially if the freebsd-advocates get busy. :-) -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