From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 23:51:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09349 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:51:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA09340 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:50:53 GMT (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA25741; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:20:50 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA02153; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:20:50 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980414162049.F1870@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:20:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com, dg@root.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products References: <19980414015920.30944@snark.thyrsus.com> <199804140618.XAA15623@implode.root.com> <19980413234027.16223@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980413234027.16223@mooseriver.com>; from Josef Grosch on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 11:40:27PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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