From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 8 14:12:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ftf.dk (mail.ftf.net [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D946A15101 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from regnauld@ftf.net) Received: from ns.int.ftf.net (fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged)) by mail.ftf.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/gw-ftf-1.2) with ESMTP id XAA01887; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:10:03 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.ftf.dk: Host fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged) claimed to be ns.int.ftf.net Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by ns.int.ftf.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) id XAA95203; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:13:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19990908231358.49363@ns.int.ftf.net> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:13:58 +0200 From: Phil Regnauld To: David Schwartz Cc: Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD market share statistics References: <19990908114806.04124@ns.int.ftf.net> <000e01befa2a$a2d34dc0$021d85d1@youwant.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <000e01befa2a$a2d34dc0$021d85d1@youwant.to>; from David Schwartz on Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 11:47:44AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386 Organization: FTFnet Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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