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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.


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