From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 12 23:10:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05C037B401 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE4E43F3F for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:10:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 802EE526BF; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:40:09 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:40:09 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Chris Message-ID: <20030713061009.GI94666@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200307101812.14843.racerx@makeworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MPkR1dXiUZqK+927" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307101812.14843.racerx@makeworld.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 06:10:13 -0000 --MPkR1dXiUZqK+927 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 10 July 2003 at 18:12:14 -0500, Chris wrote: > On Thursday 10 July 2003 06:06 pm, John Mills wrote: > Snippage... > >>>> Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. >>>> >>>> OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How >>>> many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus >>>> NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there >>>> are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about >>>> half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users >>>> of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD >>>> market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. >>>> This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts. > > > What kinda of math is this?!?! It this the sorta thing they are teaching in > public schools now? No, it's the sort of thing they've been posting on /. for years now. The troll doesn't even bother to update his numbers. Based on these numbers, every user of FreeBSD has three copies of "The Complete FreeBSD". Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --MPkR1dXiUZqK+927 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/EPfBIubykFB6QiMRAkpzAKCLl+HaPhjYtcRx1I09F5G1ARS6uACeJ0Lw D1lWAEf7QF/CnD/UrK5H1/Y= =Lv7L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MPkR1dXiUZqK+927--