Re: *BSD is dying

From: Jalle (defacto_at_home.se)
Date: 07/11/03

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    I must say I find this pretty amusing! =o)
    This guy really has some passion for drama!

    "Red ink flows like a river of blood."
             Now this is some! And then some! =o)

    "*BSD is collapsing in complete disarray..."
             How is that done? Can you draw a figure?

    "...its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house..."
             This is my favorite! Gotta print a t-shirt with this one!

    And as for keeping to the facts and looking at the numbers...
    Aren't those assumptions I see there my friend? Yes indeed!

    Sorry for this OT post, but the more I think about it and read it, the
    funnier it gets!
    I'll keep these postings to advocacy or some other more apropriate list
    next time!

    See ya!
    /J

    At 19:08 2003-07-10 -0700, Andrew Robinson wrote:
    >I can assure you that this clown posts exactly this post to /. on a regular
    >basis ... except that half the time, it's BSD that's dying, and the other
    >half it's Windows Server, and the other half (ahem) it's Linux ...
    >
    >Andrew
    >
    >
    >
    > > > >http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=70502&cid=6404771
    > > > >
    > > > >It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying
    > > > >
    > > > >Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when
    > > > >recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1
    > > > >percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft
    > > > >survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this
    > > > >news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing
    > > > >in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last
    > > > >[samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
    > > > >
    > > > >You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's
    > > > >future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In
    > > > >fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying.
    > > > >Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware,
    > > > >*BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of
    > > > >blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of
    > > > >its core developers.
    > > > >
    > > > >Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
    > > > >
    > > > >OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How
    > > > >many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus
    > > > >NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there
    > > > >are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about
    > > > >half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users
    > > > >of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD
    > > > >market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users.
    > > > >This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
    > > > >
    > > > >Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD
    > > > >went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another
    > > > >troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet
    > > > >another charnel house.
    > > > >
    > > > >All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share.
    > > > >*BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
    > > > >*BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD
    > > > >continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this
    > > > >point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
    > > > >
    > > > >Fact: *BSD is dead
    > > > >
    > > > >
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