Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:13:58 +0200 From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD market share statistics Message-ID: <19990908231358.49363@ns.int.ftf.net> In-Reply-To: <000e01befa2a$a2d34dc0$021d85d1@youwant.to>; from David Schwartz on Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 11:47:44AM -0700 References: <19990908114806.04124@ns.int.ftf.net> <000e01befa2a$a2d34dc0$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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David Schwartz writes: > > The software industry is a very strange one. In pretty much every other > industry, the question is "will I make more money on this thing than it > costs me to make it?" However, due to the shortage of talented programmers, > in this industry the question is more often, "is this the most effective > usage of my limited programming resources?". > > This is a question that relies completely on relative numbers. FreeBSD's > market is considered relative to every other market. Not in absolute > dollars. Hmmm maybe. I agree about "scarce programming resources", but still, that isn't the case of every software company, no ? (programmer vs. potential income considered) Of course the "leader" OS will carry the product -- just as we're seeing products disappear in the UNIX world and reappear NT-only. -- Division by Zero error -- multiplying by zero to recover. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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