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Date:      Thu, 30 Apr 1998 04:20:47 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
Cc:        jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly), chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Correction for Caldera article 
Message-ID:  <199804301120.EAA18862@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "30 Apr 1998 13:05:11 %2B0200." <xzp3eevo9i0.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> 

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>David Greenman <dg@root.com> writes:
>>    Quite honestly, it doesn't bother me at all if Linux growth was fast
>> and furious. In fact, I'd be _worried_ if it declined to 0 growth (or worse,
>> lose market share), since this would indicate that the size of the "unix"
>> market is limited and relatively small, and would mean that Microsoft
>> has won.
>
>You don't seem to take into account the situation where Linux would be
>losing market shares... to FreeBSD.

   This is true...but I'll be happy as long as FreeBSD's growth continues to
be exponential. :-) This obviously can't continue forever, but I think we
have a few years yet before growth will start slowing down - especially if
the freebsd-advocates get busy. :-)

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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