From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 15 21:42:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA03767 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 21:42:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA03762 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 21:42:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA22775; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 21:42:11 -0700 (PDT) To: Ian Struble cc: Greg Lehey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Andreas Klemm , jkb , Jonathan Lemon Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Oct 1997 18:30:42 PDT." Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 21:42:11 -0700 Message-ID: <22771.876976931@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In the Oct 13 NetworkWorld on pg 21, there is a figure of 3-10 million linux > users worldwide, so this 6 million figure may be a reasonable number. There Hmph. "We have approximately 3 million users, possibly even as many as 10 million, so I guess we'll set a reasonable estimate at 6 million." Say what? Am I the only one who's twigged to the number game going on here? :-) Jordan