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Is BSD Dying?
Every BSD article posted, trolls come out and post about BSD dying. Naysayers at every turn, mostly pro-Linux, say that BSD doesn't have the marketing and advocacy to succeed. Greg Lehey, author of The Complete FreeBSD and FreeBSD core team member, takes a look at naysayer's claims, the history of BSD, the root of the "quiet" BSD advocates, and the relationship of Linux to it all, in this month's Daemon's Advocate at Daemon News
BSD is not dying. I am both a Linux and a FreeBSD user, and I can assure you that its not dying. Those anti-BSD "trolls" are nothing more than ignorant Windows lusers that have carried over their misinformed ideas from anti-apple/mac to anti-BSD. As Linux gets easier to use, there will be an ever growing stream of these morons.
Just go to netcraft.net and take a look at the top 50 uptimes. Only 3 times does any non-BSD OS appear there (BTW, Linux does not appear once). BSD is not dying, Linux has just stolen the spotlight for a few moments. Sure Linux has the spotlight, but BSD remains running on all of the mission critical servers. It doesnt matter how popular Linux gets, there will always be a place for BSD; this marketshare is not really being stolen from BSD, its being stolen from Windoze and others.
It doesnt matter how many millions of dollars some useless company is worth, the OS will still be pretty much the same. You cant just pump money into an OS and expect it to be better. BSD is a good product because of its age, and the truley devoted programmers. 1 free programmer doing what they truley love is the equivelant of 10 hired/commerical programmers. Quality, not quantity.
There are some things that Linux is good at, and some that BSD is good at. No amount of advocacy will change it. Advocacy is not the answer in most cases, it just turns into a flame fest. Once people see the statistics they will know in their heart.
Buying a Dell computer is equivalent to dropping the soap in a prison shower.
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You have 'linux companies' that have lost large parts of their market valuations, Linux distros merging, IPO's cancelled, etc.
In short, if one wishes to portray the 'worst' of the present state of the linux market, it would look like linux is the market that is dying. And, the total money gone in the linux market is far less than the BSD market. I'm betting you could get a link or 2 to the Brett Glass rants about how the GPL works to un-employ programmers. Given all the money that is gone in the Linux market never to be seen again....why not blame the GPL?
Go one better than the 'BSD is dying' person...provide actual links rather than their handwaving about BSD is dying.
Remember also that the BSD is dying troll had blown it in the past....declaring BSD dead due to Applixware not having a 5.X version for BSD.