*BSD is dying

Thomas T. Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net
Fri Jul 11 07:29:49 PDT 2003


The fact that it is a moderated forum leads me to believe that the slashdot
operators are themselves FreeBSD bigots.  I for one have much less respect
for Slashdot for allowing that drivel through.

Tom Veldhouse

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Robinson" <andrewr at uidaho.edu>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:08 PM
Subject: *BSD is dying


> 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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