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Mike Cheponis wrote:
>

>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.

I think that those numbers are rather suspect, but how about I add
some (equivalently relavent and logical numbers in):

On www.uptimes.net, NetBSD has 112 machines registered.  Linux has
3790 and Windows has 1747.  Now, obviously this represents a decent
sample of the audience, and since we've established that there are
1400 NetBSD users that means that there are 47362 Linux users
world-wide and 21826 Windows users.

I guess since there are less Windows users than FreeBSD users,
Windows is the next to go.  And Linux is barely kicking at 47K
users.  What do the millions of other people use...

Heh.  ;-)

But, in more seriousness, I do not think that:
	(a)  Theo stated that there are 7K users of OpenBSD, or
	(b)  Usenet postings are a relevant or accurate
	     assessment of the number of users of an OS
	     (any more than number of hosts registered at
	     www.uptimes.net.)

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