From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 01:58:49 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 E6A4837B401 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 01:58:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from archimedes.rsn.bth.se (archimedes.rsn.bth.se [194.47.145.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D8043F75 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 01:58:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from defacto@home.se) Received: from jarl.home.se (as4-3-5.paa.hs.bonet.se [217.215.11.194]) by archimedes.rsn.bth.se (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h6B9iOFU015438 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:44:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from defacto@home.se) Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.0.20030711104917.00b3fb48@archimedes.rsn.bth.se> X-Sender: jalle@archimedes.rsn.bth.se (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:00:33 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jalle In-Reply-To: <200307101908.47976.andrewr@uidaho.edu> References: <20030711001942.683F537B401@hub.freebsd.org> <20030711001942.683F537B401@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: *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 08:58:49 -0000 I must say I find this pretty amusing! =o) This guy really has some passion for drama! "Red ink flows like a river of blood." Now this is some! And then some! =o) "*BSD is collapsing in complete disarray..." How is that done? Can you draw a figure? "...its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house..." This is my favorite! Gotta print a t-shirt with this one! And as for keeping to the facts and looking at the numbers... Aren't those assumptions I see there my friend? Yes indeed! Sorry for this OT post, but the more I think about it and read it, the funnier it gets! I'll keep these postings to advocacy or some other more apropriate list next time! See ya! /J At 19:08 2003-07-10 -0700, Andrew Robinson wrote: >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. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"