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Date:      Thu, 4 Feb 2016 11:35:09 +0100
From:      Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Cc:        doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r48150 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd
Message-ID:  <1D0251FC-4524-49F3-8B11-A76E787D1270@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201602040801.u1481r5j087645@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201602040801.u1481r5j087645@repo.freebsd.org>

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> On 04 Feb 2016, at 09:01, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Author: eadler
> Date: Thu Feb  4 08:01:53 2016
> New Revision: 48150
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48150
> 
> Log:
>  Remove 15+ yr old reference to the world's busiest FTP server
> 
> Modified:
>  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.xml
> 
> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.xml
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.xml	Thu Feb  4 02:19:12 2016	(r48149)
> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.xml	Thu Feb  4 08:01:53 2016	(r48150)
> @@ -31,14 +31,7 @@
>     <abstract>
>       <para>In the open source world, the word <quote>Linux</quote> is almost
> 	synonymous with <quote>Operating System</quote>, but it is not the only
> -	open source &unix; operating system.  According
> -	to the <link xlink:href="http://www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount/data/r.9904.txt">Internet
> -	  Operating System Counter</link>, as of April 1999 31.3% of the
> -	world's network connected machines run Linux.  14.6% run BSD &unix;.
> -	Some of the world's largest web operations, such as <link xlink:href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</link>, run BSD.  The world's
> -	busiest FTP server of 1999 (now defunct), <link xlink:href="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/">ftp.cdrom.com</link>, used BSD to
> -	transfer 1.4 TB of data a day.    Clearly this is not a niche
> -	market: BSD is a well-kept secret.</para>
> +	open source &unix; operating system.</para>
> 
>       <para>So what is the secret?  Why is BSD not better known?  This white
> 	paper addresses these and other questions.</para>

Why remove this? It explains why BSD is used and more specifically it does not jump from ‘not the only unix operating system’ to ‘so what is the secret, why is bsd not better known’.

Pls reconsider.

Remko

> 

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Best regards,

Remko Lodder




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