Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 02:51:02 -0400 From: Lee Cremeans <lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd) Message-ID: <19971009025102.56709@wakky.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <01BCD442.9D961500@ip185-198.konnections.com>; from Mike Allison on Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 11:33:42PM -0600 References: <01BCD442.9D961500@ip185-198.konnections.com>
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On Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 11:33:42PM -0600, Mike Allison wrote: > It's all insipid, anyway. Agreed totally...this is the sort of "why bother fighting about it, noone's going to win" thread that happens day-in, day-out on comp.*.advocacy. It's a waste of bandwidth, IMO, and I almost procmailed this thread because of that. > Who cares how many NTs ship? Who cares what peaks? NO ONE has FreeOS > sales numbers because it's not a license, so it's ever irrelevant... Amen to that...it would be nice to know what the FreeBSD userbase count is like, but since it's not payware, noone knows for sure. The only sales numbers that really exist, I would imagine, are for the CD sets, and that would definitely be an understatement, since not everyone gets FreeBSD on CD. -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac Ee34/1/36 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code
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