Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:39:58 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Ian Struble <ian@majesticnet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, jkb <jkb@best.com>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p Message-ID: <199710160739.AAA00671@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:35:29 %2B0930." <19971016143529.60886@lemis.com>
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Hmm... I think that we ought to advertise more that we need people to register or "vote" their use of FreeBSD. I have been on companies were employees happily carted their PCs in to install freebsd or some other flavor of Unix;other companies , have "farms" of FreeBSD . I wouldn't be surprised if any one of those companies which uses FreeBSD as a product alone exceed our counter of registered users 8) Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Greg Lehey : > On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 09:42:11PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >> In the Oct 13 NetworkWorld on pg 21, there is a figure of 3-10 million lin ux > >> users worldwide, so this 6 million figure may be a reasonable number. The re > > > > 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? :-) > > I don't think you can be that sure about the upper and lower limits. > I'd say there must be at least 25,000, because we've counted them. > But are you sure that there are no more than 10,000,000? How can you > be sure? I'd say it's possible that there are 20,000,000. > > Of course, I can't be sure about that, either. Let's split the > difference (20,000,000 + 25,000)/2 = 10,000,000 within the limits of > measurement error :-) > > Greg
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