From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 25 10:48:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22176 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:48:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22165 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:48:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11660; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:47:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199804251747.MAA11660@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing In-Reply-To: <3541fe7c.660073@mail.cetlink.net> from John Kelly at "Apr 25, 98 03:21:53 pm" To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:47:57 -0500 (EST) Cc: dg@root.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Sat, 25 Apr 1998 05:20:42 -0700, David Greenman > wrote: > > >Linux growth has decelerated. > > Only at Walnut Creek. > > >Evidence of this is in the WC CDROM sales figures for Slackware > >Linux where growth has slowed from exponential to linear. > > Interest in Slackware has waned. Redhat and Debian have taken its > place. Concluding that FreeBSD is growing faster than Linux, based on > Slackware sales at Walnut Creek, seems to be wishful thinking. > I don't think that DG is saying that Linux is shrinking, but the rate of increase in growth is decreasing. (Remember derivatives, in high school? :-)). There is intelligence between the various Linux suppliers, and I suspect that DG knows such info. That is probably why the Linux crew is getting *more* aggressive and not less, and more self-assurred. The growth is flattening, and business models based upon exponential growth are very different than flat growth or (like Microsoft) saturated market. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message