Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:41:55 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, jkb <jkb@best.com>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web page Message-ID: <20988.876811315@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:25:28 %2B0930." <19971014112528.09598@lemis.com>
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> Why not give this guy the benefit of the doubt? I'll send him the > comparison that I plan to print in "The Complete FreeBSD", and offer > to investigate the grey areas, like driver support. Well, as others have already noted, there is a clear and obvious attempt to inflate Linux with this. Let me give you some examples: 1. It makes a big thing of Linux's cross-platform abilities but conveniently doesn't mention NetBSD at all. 2. It refers to FreeBSD as a "low end server OS" which is about as bogus as it gets. 3. It pads out each Linux description with things like "can be an IP gateway!" and extolls other such pan-OS features only in the Linux column, as if it was the only OS to offer such things. I'm sorry, but this is simply an example of the highly biased and carefully picked "yes/no" lists you typically see in advertising comparisons. It has no objective value that I can see. > Question to all, particularly jkh: This guy claims 6,000,000 users of > Linux, obviously a very optimistic figure. If we're optimistic, how > high could we push the number of FreeBSD users without leaving the > realms of reality? Considering that the 6M figure has already left the realm of reality far, far behind, I guess we could say that we had 3 million users with equal justification. It wouldn't change the fact that it was utterly false, of course, but if you're trying to compete on an equal footing, well... :-) Jordan
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