Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:20:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com, dg@root.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products Message-ID: <19980414162049.F1870@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980413234027.16223@mooseriver.com>; from Josef Grosch on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 11:40:27PM -0700 References: <19980414015920.30944@snark.thyrsus.com> <199804140618.XAA15623@implode.root.com> <19980413234027.16223@mooseriver.com>
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On Mon, 13 April 1998 at 23:40:27 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 11:18:55PM -0700, David Greenman wrote: >>> 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. > > I am confused. Could you explain what yardstick Linux uses? Only slightly simplified: "Well, if everybody who should be using Linux really does use it, we might have 20,000,000 users. I'd guess that only about 1/4 of them really do, so Linux must have 5,000,000 users". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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