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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!pnl-oracle!osi-east2.es.net!fastrac.llnl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Vote on the Best OS Message-ID: <hastyCLp2Jp.25s@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <140570@hydra.gatech.EDU> <B4xK2-S.dysonj@delphi.com> <2kfe62$3aj@trane.uninett.no> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 20:35:48 GMT Lines: 31 In article <2kfe62$3aj@trane.uninett.no> hta@uninett.no (Harald T. Alvestrand) writes: >I prefer counting to surveying. >It is a nice, biased method that gives you a number that does not >mean much. > >Send your count (if you are a free *BSD user) to bsd-counter@uninett.no >(At the moment, approx 509 people have done so; 5155 have registered with >the Linux counter, linux-counter@uninett.no. This either shows a sharp >difference in the number of users, or shows bias on the part of the >count taker, or something else. I'm not sure what.) Maybe we are just a very, very tiny community :) So vote folks, unless all of you wish to remain anonymous. Another way to look at it is that by having a large number of of users for your favorite OS attracts the possibility of commercial software to be ported to your OS. Yeah, I know a lot of you love a free lunch. If the commercial sector starts to jump in it may attract even more free software *contributors*. Cheers, Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X