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Date:      Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:16:44 -0500
From:      "Glenn McCalley" <techlist@bnetmd.net>
To:        "List Free Bsd" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
Message-ID:  <008501c519a9$ec25e100$6501a8c0@bnetmd.net>
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I think he said "break point" not "break even"
In a previous life, our stats guys in banking considered anything that had
2% share (although I think we used 3%, whatever) of a population was
"significant" and worth breaking out for study.
Glenn.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To: "Robert Kim, Wireless Internet / Wifi Hotspot Advisor"
<robertk@video-phones-evdo.com>; "List Free Bsd"
<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:30 AM
Subject: RE: Different OS's? Marketshare


>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Robert Kim,
> > Wireless Internet / Wifi Hotspot Advisor
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:49 AM
> > To: List Free Bsd
> > Subject: Different OS's? Marketshare
> >
> >
> > Different OS's? Marketshare...
> >
> > any idea how many major OS's are out there today and what market share
> > they have?
> >
> > i think
> >
> > WIN 70%
> > Lin 20%
> > Apple 5%
> > so who is the other 5 % ???
> >
> > you realze the statisticians and economists hold that 2 percent is the
> > break point...
> >
>
> Break even for what?  Oh I get it - break even to make a profit, right?
>
> Hmm I wonder who gets the profits from the sale of FreeBSD?  Do you
> suppose
> they would be overly concerned with the 2% rule?
>
> This is one of the (many) problems with trying to hold a free OS up to
> a measuring stick designed for measuring commercial OSes.
>
> Note that Linux is doing much better against these measuring sticks
> because
> the Linux community, for all their loud proclamations about being GPL,
> has been steadily making Linux less and less distinguishable from the
> commercial OSs.  When for example was the last time you saw a Linux
> enthusiast with a burned CDROM of an ISO he downloaded somewhere?  The
> ones I see all have colorful cardboard boxes with penguins on them
> that they bought at Fry's.
>
> Consider that even if FreeBSD had 50% of all running computers - if those
> 50% of computers all belong to people that never buy software and only
> run freeware, the people that create these measuring sticks would bend
> over backwards to be sure those 50% were not counted.  Not because they
> have anything against FreeBSD, but simply because the customers of the
> data these measuring sticks produce cannot sell anything to that 50% -
> thus they don't care if that 50% exists or not.
>
> Ted
>
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