From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 23:20:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA03615 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:20:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA03606 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:20:46 GMT (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA15623; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:18:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804140618.XAA15623@implode.root.com> To: esr@thyrsus.com cc: Anatoly Vorobey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:59:20 EDT." <19980414015920.30944@snark.thyrsus.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:18:55 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >That said, you've done the best job of anyone here of raising doubt >about my pessimistic BSD-will-die scenario in my mind. That figure of >25,000 registered users is very encouraging. If we use the same yardsticks that Linux does to estimate installed base, then FreeBSD would be on about 500,000 machines. No joke. Let me also say that, at least at WC CDROM, Linux sales have pretty much stopped increasing, while FreeBSD sales continue to double every year. Based purely on CDROM sales projections, FreeBSD will be caught up with Linux by the year 2000. As someone else pointed out, we get a large number of new users as converts from Linux. I'm happy to say that the converse is apparantly not true. I for one believe that the war is with Windows/*, and not between the Unix-like systems. Given a choice between Linux and Windows, the choice is a simple one. There are plenty of reasons why I don't like Linux myself, but I certainly have no desire for it to fail; the more people it can keep from the clutches of Microsoft, the better. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message