Re: FreeBSD losing market share?

2012-04-09 Thread Polytropon
Tony, I'm always fascinated how people consider market share the purpose of everyone and everything. FreeBSD is not a profit-oriented company (it's not even a company in this regards), and you can hardly _measure_ its market share. Hell, you can't even measure its _usage share_! Unlike

Re: FreeBSD losing market share?

2012-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On 04/09/12 16:01, Polytropon wrote: Tony, I'm always fascinated how people consider market share the purpose of everyone and everything. FreeBSD is not a profit-oriented company (it's not even a company in this regards), and you can hardly _measure_ its market share. Hell, you can't even

Re: FreeBSD losing market share?

2012-04-08 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 15:22:47 +0200 Tony articulated: Just look at how well low-cost airlines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_low-cost_airlines are doing. You seriously want to fly on the airline that has cut everything, including maintenance to the bare bone? Everyone is not a pauper. Some

RE: FreeBSD losing market share?

2012-04-08 Thread Jay West
Tony wrote... --- I'm a bit alarmed by the fact that none of the major low-cost Xen VPS-based hosting providers in the modern web development scenehttp://rubyonrails.org/screencasts/rails3 (Rackspace, Linode, SliceHost, Webbynode etc.) offer FreeBSD hosting. Sure there are some

Re: FreeBSD losing market share?

2012-04-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 09:37:15AM -0500, Jay West wrote: Tony wrote... --- I'm a bit alarmed by the fact that none of the major low-cost Xen VPS-based hosting providers in the modern web development scenehttp://rubyonrails.org/screencasts/rails3 (Rackspace, Linode,