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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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