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On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:07:44PM +0000, Saifi Khan wrote:
> The existing users provide continuity not growth. To be popular
> FreeBSD needs growth.
> Growth comes from new users !

It depends on the kind of new users. The aim of FreeBSD is not to be
the most popular OS out there. Has never been. The main driving force
is to attract good developers who like technical challenges and who
love to tinker. It's nice to have a solid and large user base, but
IMHO, that's not the main priority.

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-cpghost.

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