Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:39:07 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: gandersn@puc.net (`~-_-~') Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p Message-ID: <199710172139.QAA14443@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19971017194008.006bd298@mail.onlink.net> from `~-_-~' at "Oct 17, 97 03:40:08 pm"
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`~-_-~' said: > >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 > > Would you guys give up on the numbers, even if you were right > numbers of users is just useless, or we would only run win95 > > and when you spend anytime with yahoo, and see the number of > linux related sites compared with FreeBSD sites you must > expect a greater user base for linux. > Except, many of the users who search with YAHOO are using FreeBSD as users... That makes a h*ll alot of FreeBSD users :-). > > but why do people argue about one or the other? > there not that different! > For the fun of it... I don't see any flaming here :-). -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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