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OpenBeOs Developers Talk About Progress
DeltaSigma writes: "Michael Phipps, of the OpenBeos team, recently hosted a public Q&A Session where many of the public musings over a completely new open source operating system have been addressed. The answer to all the 'is there room in the market?' questions was answered in a way: 'We are an OSS project. Marketing is not our job.' Perhaps more /.ers could keep this in mind ..."
heh.
Personally I only get everything on tape. so if it's not too much trouble can you please have Taco or CBN read everything and mail me a tape. Thanks k buhbye.
Have some respect, and clean up those logs. Grown-ups aren't going to be impressed by IRC chat room transcripts. I hope your coding skills are better than your PR persona.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent 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 in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin 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. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
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 dilettante 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 dying
L.O.R.D. fucking r0x0rs!
I think bbs.dgpi.com is still running it.
In other words, this is just another case of programmers indulging in a hobby and not really trying to provide users with a genuine, useful. and usable alternative to Windows.
Either you're helping save users from MS's clutches, or you're helping MS maintain their monopoly. There's no middle ground. Perhaps that's something more /.ers should keep in mind...
Today netcraft confirmed that OpenBeOS was hit by a crippling bombshell and accounts for only 0.000000000001% of the market share. This means that OpenBeOS is dying.
OpenBeOS has lost over 99% of its market share in the last 1 minute because OpenBeOS is dying.
How many OpenBeOS users are there? Well OpenBeOS dosnen't come with news software so no one knows! But it is estimated that only one twerp uses it and that is the person who made it who is currently dying of aids.
OpenBeOS went out of buisness and was Bought up by AtheOS. Now AtheOS is dead.
If OpenBeOS were to surive it would only be found in raw source code on some slow obscure FTP mirror in Afganistan. For All practical purposes OpenBeOS is dead.
Fact : OpenBeOS is dead!
BECAUSE I HAVEN'T LAUGHED SO HARD IN WEEKS
And it's rather true, as you'll find if you poke about Sourceforge...
P.S. The *&^%$#@! lameness filter wouldn't let me quote the whole sentence because of too many capital letters.
What a fu**ing joke. Idiot f***ing moron who wrote that should...
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