Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 00:46:40 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net>, "Chris" <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: freebsd training/certification Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEOIEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <41D8EE59.9090909@taborandtashell.net>
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Because if you are a software publisher you make a lot more money selling software applications written for Red Hat than for FreeBSD. And since the software publishers and hardware vendors are the major advertisers in the computing press trade ragazines, and the hardware vendors don't care about the Windows vs FreeBSD vs Linux debate and make money from all of us, over this issue the software publishers are going to influence every column written, every survey taken, every interview published and every so-called news article on the subject. Of course the real truth is that nobody knows how many Linux systems compared to FreeBSD systems are in production. But from the industries point of view, the only counts that matter are those of SALES of operating systems. Red Hat doesen't get any more credit for downloads of the older versions of RedHat or of Fedora from the trade press than we get for downloads of FreeBSD. I might point out however that numbers aren't everything. There were far more Volkswagen Beetles sold than there have been Corvettes, but you might consider that the Corvette is still in production, as is the Mustang, while the Bug is little more than a piece of history. Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Tabor Kelly > Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 11:04 PM > To: Chris > Cc: Jayton Garnett; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: freebsd training/certification > > > Chris wrote: > > <snip> > > > The user states, "I have been using the OS for over a year now", Hmmm > > seems to me that the user should KNOW the answer to, "and how come > > FreeBSD is not as popular as RH/Fedora?" > > Please, enlighten me, why is FreeBSD less popular than RH/Fedora, or > linux in general for that matter? > > -- > > Tabor Kelly > tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net > http://tabor.taborandtashell.net > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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