From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 19:01:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C7537B401 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.turbonet.com (mail.turbonet.com [206.228.112.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF3E843F75 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:01:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrewr@uidaho.edu) Received: from halogen ([63.161.23.23]) by mail.turbonet.com (Merak 5.8.4) with ESMTP id MZV74099 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:01:42 -0700 From: Andrew Robinson Organization: University of Idaho To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:08:47 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030711001942.683F537B401@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20030711001942.683F537B401@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307101908.47976.andrewr@uidaho.edu> Subject: *BSD is dying X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 02:01:44 -0000 I can assure you that this clown posts exactly this post to /. on a regular basis ... except that half the time, it's BSD that's dying, and the other half it's Windows Server, and the other half (ahem) it's Linux ... Andrew > > >http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=70502&cid=6404771 > > > > > >It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying > > > > > >Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when > > >recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 > > >percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft > > >survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this > > >news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing > > >in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last > > >[samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test. > > > > > >You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's > > >future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In > > >fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. > > >Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, > > >*BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of > > >blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of > > >its core developers. > > > > > >Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. > > > > > >OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How > > >many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus > > >NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there > > >are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about > > >half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users > > >of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD > > >market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. > > >This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts. > > > > > >Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD > > >went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another > > >troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet > > >another charnel house. > > > > > >All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. > > >*BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If > > >*BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD > > >continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this > > >point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead. > > > > > >Fact: *BSD is dead > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ -- Andrew Robinson Ph: 208 885 7115 Department of Forest Resources Fa: 208 885 6226 University of Idaho E : andrewr@uidaho.edu PO Box 441133 W : http://www.uidaho.edu/~andrewr Moscow ID 83843 Or: http://www.biometrics.uidaho.edu No statement above necessarily represents my employer's opinion.