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A better news summary at:

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3 406161

Or the organization itself:

http://www.planet-lab.org/

Also adopting Sender ID is Sendmail, which makes a commercial version of the venerable open source Sendmail message transfer agent

However, Dave Anderson, Sendmail's CEO, says:

What you get [with the license] is the ability to use the software for free, and if you don't get a license what you get is the ability to use this software for free -- so we've decided there really is no reason for us to get a license.

Uhm, fine, but I think that's an attitude that will come back and bite them... If there weren't technical reasons for avoiding sendmail, I would be very skeptical about putting any kind of investment into a product that isn't more concerned about licensing issues... This is a minefield.

Here is the deal with Sender ID. Caller ID is patented (Sender ID = SPF + Caller ID), and thus everyone who uses in must get a patent from MS. If something is patented, you must license it to use it. It doesn't matter if you got the ideas from copying, white-room reverse engineering, or if you independently discovered the idea - the patent holder still has a monopoly on the use of the ideas and you must license them. As far as I know ASP and SMB are not patent encumbered. MS didn't have a policy of patenting their software until several years ago (about the same time as the Halloween papers were written, IIRC).

MS has licensed the Caller ID patent(s?) under what, on the surface, appears to be a very fair and open royalty free license. You don't have to pay any fees to MS to get a license to include Caller ID in your software. You can distribute the software to anyone you want, and your users are also free to redistribute this software. You can even distribute the source. For more information, read this article. However there is one issue that makes it incompatible with open source software - the patent license is non-transferable and non-sublicenseable.

What that means is that each developer who creates or modifies Caller ID code must sign and mail their own license from MS. The OSI definition of Open Source Software, and FSF definition of Free Software both state that the user must be free to modify and redistribute the software. This puts FLOSS licenses at odds with the Caller-ID license. If your software license meet the terms of the Caller-ID license then the software isn't FLOSS, and if you use a FLOSS license, then you are not meeting the terms of the Caller-ID license. The best lawyers on the subject agree that it is impossible to make these two agree. They also do a good job of explaining why redistribute of modified works is critical to FLOSS software, and why we should refuse to use a license that would be compatible.

So thats where things stand. It would be possible to write a non-FLOSS plugin for FLOSS software, but it is impossible to write a FLOSS implementation. Debian has a long history of not accepting non-free software into their main branch. But even among those that are more tolerant of combining proprietary software with FLOSS, there are many who disagree with proprietary standards and are thus opposed to the Caller ID license.

There is no need to run Microsoft products.

Microsoft products are inherently unsafe compared to GNU/Linux. Read this article as well. Microsoft lies to its customers and to everyone else.

I cannot figure out why people still use Microsoft products, unless it is because of sheer ignorance. My company runs Mandrakelinux. Microsoft products are not allowed in the offices nor on the production floor. If we can do it, so can you.

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

You can't break the law and then bitch about how the law is wrong. Its questionable if chalk advertisements are legal, companies typically pay permits for that medium. After IBM and NBC outraged people by spray painting messages around town, I think advertisers are treading lightly. If chalk advertising was clearly legal you'd probably see "eat at mcdonalds" all over your city.

Well what's the real complaint, that he was held without a reason or that he was arrested for chalking the sidewalks? Did the cops give him a reason, later on, when they weren't in front of cameras? If not, I agree that's fascist. When asked, "Do you have any fear of being arrested during the Republican Convention?" JK responded: "I think anybody planning an act of civil disobedience has to accept the risk of getting arrested ... There is a chance I could be arrested. Am I criminally defacing property? I don't think so." I think he knew what he was doing was legally questionable.

I work in advertising, so I know chalk art is questionably legal. I guess that's my point. Read for yourself:

Chalk art is one form of guerrilla marketing, an in-your-face, direct-to-the-people kind of advertising. Guerrilla marketing in public spaces can be tricky and even illegal, as Nike and Microsoft found out separately last fall when they took heat from New York City officials for slapping promotional decals on sidewalks and buildings. "I guess we haven't addressed that during any meeting I've attended," says Heather Freeman, who does public relations for Red Sage (www.redsage.com). The chalk art is just supposed to be "fun and friendly." It's unclear whether the city agrees. The District typically requires permits for any disruption of a public space, including an event or activity that might hinder foot traffic or the movement of the disabled on a sidewalk. Permit requests go to the city's Department of Transportation, and permits are issued by its Department of Consumer & Regulatory Affairs.

Personally, I think it's bullshit if they are enforcing it to different degrees, like letting pro-lifers put messages everywhere but not letting the bike guy get the word out. He obviously wasn't keeping the shit low-profile by talking to the media.

OK - how's this?

Back in April, Slashdot reported the announcement of a Universal 3D File Format by Intel, Microsoft & others - to be "as open as MP3". Of course, that's not all that open. And this turns out to be the sneaky part. There is a real open standard already - X3D is ISO-ratified, royalty-free, and has multiple open source implementations. U3D is "going to be submitted to ISO" - one day - but right now they're talking to ECMA, which allows royalty-bearing patents.
I found this article by Tony Parisi, co-chair of the X3D Working Group a fascinating insider's picture of the standards wars, along with insights into what it takes to release an online game, what really killed VRML, and why open standards do (and don't) matter.
I mean, a royalty-bearing, pseudo-open universal 3D format from Intel and Microsoft? Sorry, guys. That trick doesn't work anymore


BTW, I need to get a life.

Some people just don't get it, do they. At least the US government has their eyes open.

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

IBM has enough patents to make Microsoft's look like a paltry contribution. They had more than 37,000 back in 2002 and expect around 3,000 a year.

I guess that depends on what you mean by "hunted down", since you don't need to hunt to find a university.

I do remember universities having legal trouble and a single Google search turned up this and this.

From here:

Upholding a lower court decision issued in April of 2003, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled P2P technology is legal even if the software itself is used for illegal purposes.

"The technology has numerous other uses, significantly reducing the distribution costs of public domain and permissively shared art and speech, as well as reducing the centralized control of that distribution," Judge Sidney R. Thomas wrote in a unanimous opinion.

The three-judge panel acknowledged that copyright violations do occur on the decentralized P2P networks, but the companies owning and distributing the enabling software cannot be held liable for the infringements.

• What the US government has to say about MS IE and its terrible security.
• Proof that MS Windows is terribly insecure compared to Linux. Linux is more secure, more stable, and faster than Ms Windows.
• Learn about Microsoft's lies and the real 'Total Cost of Ownership' (TCO) statistics. Linux is much cheaper to install and run then MS Windows.

• What the US government has to say about MS IE and its terrible security.
• Proof that MS Windows is terribly insecure compared to Linux. Linux is more secure, more stable, and faster than Ms Windows.
• Learn about Microsoft's lies and the real 'Total Cost of Ownership' (TCO) statistics. Linux is much cheaper to install and run then MS Windows.

• What the US government has to say about MS IE and its terrible security.
• Proof that MS Windows is terribly insecure compared to Linux. Linux is better.
• Learn about Microsoft's lies and the real 'Total Cost of Ownership' (TCO) statistics. Linux is much cheaper to install and run then MS Windows.

• What the US government has to say about IE security being bad for IE users
• About Windows security vs. Linux security. Windows is bad.
• About 'Total Cost of Ownership' (TCO) statistics; Microsoft's lies

Microsoft software is garbage, and I'll prove it.
The Microsoft Corp. is a collection of liars, thieves, and cheaters who's only motivation is money. They could care less about the safety and security of the people who use their software.

Here are a few links to help you see the truth:

The US government is telling people to stop using Microsoft's software.
Microsoft has lied and got caught trying to fake evidence in court, and they lie to people about TCO (total Cost of Ownership) statistics.
The Microsoft Windows operating system is dangerous for eveyone.
Using Microsoft software is a bad idea for people and the internet as a whole. Don't believe me? Click the above links and read the articles for yourself.

How much more proof do you need to throw Microsoft Windows, and other MS software, in the garbage and switch to Linux?

• What the US government has to say about IE security
• About Windows security vs. Linux security
• About 'Total Cost of Ownership' (TCO) statistics

• What the US government has to say about IE security
• About Windows security vs. Linux security
• About 'Total Cost of Ownership' (TCO) statistics

• What the US government has to say about IE security
• About Windows security vs. Linux security
• About 'Total Cost of Ownership' (TCO) statistics

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Department of Homeland Security recommendation not to use Internet Explorer:
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3 374931/

Surely some IT people are tired of combatting IE's security flaws. Mozilla already seems to me to be more useful than IE, it is standards compliant, and it promises as we see here to continue to be. What SMART IT department wouldn't like that?

Sadly in my opinion many home users went to Windows because that's what their corporate IT departments forced them to use at work. So they got familiar with it, warts and all. If those same IT people get them to use Mozilla I'm sure they'd be far less fearful of trying it at home.

http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/339067 1
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117270,0 0.asp

They are just trying to look like the good guy to the FCC. Mabe in hopes the FCC backs them in beating State Taxes!

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

I imagine most of the "loss" was in intangible assets, such as brandnames, goodwill, etc. To buy Lycos, Inc., Terra just printed $12.5 billion in stock certificates (see this article), which made the then stockholders of Lycos (valued in 2000 at $70ish per share) significantly happy. Terra is owned by Telifonica, which is the national phone company of Spain.

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Or has Google gotten a lot of bad press lately....
It's even more interesting considering this was recently started...

--tinfoil hat size: 7 3/8

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

People are getting more voracious for news these days. To satisfy the online news appetitie there are several sites scuh as Google News, Yahoo News, Newstrove, Moreover News Services , Topix.net and now MSN with their News Bot. Microsoft has just launched the beta test of Newsbot, a customized search-driven news . MSN News Bot offers personalization by searching on topics, and the service suggests stories based on what visitors have previously read.

But I find Google News more usefriendly and systematic, why doesn't Microsoft employ some good usability expert who can enlighten them on inetrface designing.

I compared MSN and Google News by searching for India on both MSN Newsbot & Google News and found that on Newsbot results obtained were containing mostly yesterdays Criket Match headlines, whereas the google had identified them to be same and related, And arranged the other related news links below the the first result itself instead of showing different criket headlines.

Right now I cannot see the advantage of a search history on MSN but I do see the advantage of finding the related stories covered by different news sources. Is history really so useful ? , 'cos mostly people will be using one or two words to make the searches and not some complex string and may be they would be using the same search words daily. But on the other side the collections of history links would be a sure advantage for some people who might be drilling for something more specfic or 'hard to find info / not so populated topic' and trying different combinations.

The the advantage of MSN Newsbot over Google News is that Newsbot has more sections and topics in the navigation and makes use of Java Scripts so that you can navigate the respective sections > subsections > and related headlines just over the roll of your mouse.

One thing leaves me confusing , what does Microsoft wants to become, it is confused about its own identity or doing some sourch searching.
- Is there a need for Microsoft to become the next google ?
- Is Microsoft really seeing a great opportunity in News and Search Engines market ?
- Or simply it doesn't have anything else to do ? Microsoft has started a online mag slate and is now thinking of wiping it off. Why it doesn't concentrate on Browser Wars and try to give some peace to the exisitng users of Internet Explorer who are under constant threat. Microsoft seems to be concentrating on Mass or larger share of consumer market, even its patents are also very pathetic. With the kind of cash it has, it should now support real technological inventions or innovations.

And last but not the least I hate both of them for not providing the syndication feature through RSS.

Also posted on my blog http://sanspeak.blogspot.com/2004/07/msn-news-bot- google-news-comparison.html

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

The Department of Homeland Security told me not to use closed source Internet Explorer, or else I'd be leaving my computer open to terrorists. Now Green Hills is telling me that by using open source Mozilla, I'm leaving my computer open to terrorists!!!!

WHAT CAN I DO!

It seems like everywhere I go people are using the politics of the moment as a crutch.

Check out this InternetNews article for more background information on the BayStar - SCO lawsuit.

Actually, FreeBSD is increasing it's market share, as mentioned here, here, and here. You really should know a little about what you're talking about before you talk about it.

As for one BSD hating another, that is utterly ridiculous to the point that I laughed at you when I read it.

Finally, I don't know what you define as "success" but the way I see it, microsoft still has the dominant desktop operating system in both quality (IMHO) and popularity (statistically) and IMHO FreeBSD still has the upper hand over Linux in the server department. So, if you follow that, that still leaves linux behind both of them.

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Be sure that this will be the next big war. But it will most certainly not be fought in the open field. My guess is that this will mostly influence companies as they move more and more to single sign-on solutions.

Article from Internet News

June 30, 2004
Single Sign-On Gains Liberty Support
By Clint Boulton

Although a lack of interoperability has threatened to hold Web services adoption back, Liberty Alliance, a group dedicated to forging an open identity standard, cracked that barrier by certifying nine single sign-in products this week.

The group awarded Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Netegrity, Novell, Oracle, Ping Identity, Sun, and Trustgenix its "Liberty Alliance Interoperable" mark in a conformance test.

The certification, which covers Liberty Alliance Identity Federation Framework (ID-FF) version 1.1 and 1.2 for single sign-on services, involves a rigorous testing process that gauges identity federation, authentication, session management and privacy protection. Vendors must demonstrate interoperability with two other randomly selected participants.

Secure single sign-on services are a key ingredient for Web services, a high-flying concept for distributed computing that allows applications to talk to one another to perform tasks. But customers are afraid to "sign-on" without a secure brand, because crackers can swipe their personal information if the site is not safeguarded properly.

According to a Liberty statement, the products are interoperable out-of-the-box, which pares deployment schedules and saves costs. This is key, as customers are loathe to license technology if it isn't supported by a validated standard, according to Gartner analyst Ray Wagner.

Customers who are thinking about federation projects need some reassurance that there won't be a huge amount of manual integration necessary between partners with different infrastructures," Wagner told internetnews.com. "Requiring compliance with Liberty, SAML, WS-Federation, and WS-I Basic Security Profile, or a subset of the above, will provide some assurance that systems have the capability to work together."

Wagner said he believes most vendors who make identity management products will provide compatibility with specs or standards in the short term, noting that Federation protocols in particular (SAML, Liberty, WS-Federation) will likely converge in the medium term.

With Liberty's certification, companies can say that their products are compliant with the Liberty identity standard, making their identity management software more appealing to customers looking to shore up their Web services platforms with authentication via single sign-on services.

Forrester analyst Randy Heffner said using Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF) requires Liberty's ID-FF and offers an interoperable path to Web services as long as users start with Liberty's ID-FF.

"There is a test suite to ensure broad testing coverage of the technical interfaces," Heffner told internetnews.com. "But successful operation of the tests is sort of on the honor system -- except that a vendor who wants the Liberty logo must participate in an interoperability event and successfully connect with a couple of other randomly chosen products."

"This is better than a simple, pre-planned interoperability event, which only proves that there is 'at least one' configuration by which products can work together -- but not that this is the configuration that any given user might need," Heffner concluded.

Web services have been slow to take off over the last few years, due to obstacles such as interoperability, security and manageability. But this is changing, owing in part to the steady work companies have been putting into the matter and the increasing acceptance of the more broad service-oriented architecture approach to software services.

The following products are now Liberty compliant: the Ericsson User S

"Federal authorities are investigating Microsoft Corp.'s, practice of setting aside some of its software revenues and recognising them later, chief financial officer Greg Maffei said. Maffei said in a conference call with reporters and analysts that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission apparently launched the probe after a newspaper report drew attention to a dispute over whether the company dips into its "cookie jar" of reserves to smooth financial results."
Microsoft Says SEC Probing Accounting Practices

"The Securities and Exchange Commission is reviewing potentially improper accounting procedures at Microsoft, according to a company executive. The federal agency is investigating how the company accounts for its financial reserves and related policies, according to Greg Maffei, chief financial officer for the leading PC software maker. Microsoft is cooperating with the SEC's efforts, he said."
SEC probes Microsoft's accounting methods

"Microsoft Corp. is still being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for possibly underestimating its revenue in order to show a sustained earnings growth, according to a published report. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the software provider, which disclosed the investigation more than two years ago, is of limited concern to analysts. But it said the investigation is the flip side of the current investigation of the collapse of Enron Corp., a company that is accused of overestimating its profits in financial reports."
SEC probes Microsoft

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

What about this, eh?

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

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