Scott Ullrich wrote:
> Yes, but what about Apple? Surely OSX sales are increasing BSD
> installation counts?
Netcraft hasn't detected sites I use since they upgraded to 4.5. They
all show up as "unknown".
>
> -SU
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alfred Pythonstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 10:24 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: It's dead Jim
>
>
> Mad propz to Hiten 'imbecile' Pandya, btw...
>
> It is official -- Netcraft is now confirming: *BSD is dying
>
> One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered *BSD community
> when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now
> down to
> less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a
> recent 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 [amdest.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. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD
> developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point
> more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
>
> 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 dilettante 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 dying
>
>
>
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