Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:33:02 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Commercial Tripwire available for Linux, not FreeBSD Message-ID: <199902260133.TAA52046@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> of "Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:22:22 %2B1030." <19990226092222.K431@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey writes: > In fact, I made an estimate a while ago. It went something like this: > > 1. We have 20,000 registered FreeBSD users. > 2. It's difficult to say how many people register, since there is no > requirement to do so. It could be as low as 0.1% of users. > 3. This would imply that there could be up to 20,000,000 users of > FreeBSD. This is a best-case estimate. > 4. Let's split the difference and say 10,010,000 users. > > This means that we have 10,000 users more than Linux :-) 1. There are 2.5 computers in my office at work. SGI O2, Irix 6.5.2 P-133, FreeBSD 2.2.8 P-200, Win95 2. The Win95 machine only counts as half because its used less than the others and turned on less than half the time. 3. Conclusion: FreeBSD and Irix have the same market share. 4. Said market share is twice that of Windows. 5. The above is not an estimate. Its hard fact, in my office FreeBSD has twice the market share as Windows. Or at worst, equal. 6. Linux has zero market share in my office. Therefore there must be infinitly more FreeBSD systems than Linux systems. Anybody else an AIRHead? http://www.improbable.com/ -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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