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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.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