Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 18:52:28 -0500 From: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sorry, I just couldn't let this go by... Message-ID: <19990901185228.A9481@quark.feynman.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990901152642.047b0250@localhost> References: <804.936177954@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19990901152642.047b0250@localhost>
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On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 04:43:10PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 02:25 AM 9/1/99 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > --------------------Major snip------------ Am not sure why I'm wasting time responding to this, but I couldn't restrain myself... > > No. The installed base appears to be growing, slowly. But an increase > in numbers does not necessarily indicate an increase in market share. > True where the numbers are concerned. > Even David G., whose projections of FreeBSD's growth seem to me to be > overly optimistic, admits that the gap between Linux and FreeBSD > is growing. On April 15th of this year, he wrote: > > >FreeBSD has in the past and continues > >to grow at nearly the _exact_ same exponential growth curve that Linux has; > >we're just about 2 years behind them and considering that they actually started > >two years before FreeBSD was formed, this should come as no surprise. It's > >definitely not an even playing field and Linux clearly has a time advantage. > > I disagree with David's contention that FreeBSD is growing at > "the same exponential growth rate that Linux has," but let's assume, for > the sake of discussion, that this is the case. If the growth factor > for both is g, then each will have g times the installed base than it did > the year before. > > Now, it doesn't take a mathematician to realize that, in David's model, the > GAP between the sizes of the user bases also grows by a factor of g every > year. In fact, the larger g is, the more Linux pulls ahead. Simple math. > What's more, if you assume that the total number of users of ALL OSes is > increasing at a uniform rate, FreeBSD's market share MUST decline relative > to that of Linux. Why? Because, having fewer users, its market share > is impacted more by the user bases of other OSes. > Huh! Buy what convoluted piece of logic does the above play out? > No, Jordan, I do not "slam" FreeBSD or BSD UNIX in general, and you should > not attempt to discredit me by making this false claim. I do carefully critique > the way in which BSD UNIX in general is being marketed, promoted, and evangelized. > Critique indeed! Brett, I am beginning to lose respect for someone that used to fight the good fight for BSD. Your motives are at time questionable -- tongue firmly planted in cheek. Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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