Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Oct 2008 12:12:19 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [REQUEST] Clarification from Copyright Holders on FUSE/NDISWRAPPER |
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On Sun 2008-09-28 21:27:38, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote: > > You may find these research reports interesting: > > > > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linuxkerneldevelopment.php > > http://www.linux-foundation.org/publications/IDC_Workloads.pdf > > > > The former shows that the development rate is if anything, increasing > > based on analyzing the rate that changes are flowing into the Linus's > > git tree --- something which I think everyone would agree is a better > > way of measuring the rate of development than the number of downloads > > of mdb. > > > > The latter is a report from IDC which calculates total enterprise > > spending in the Linux ecosystem at $21 billion in 2007, and predicts > > that by 2011 the figure will more than double to $49 billion. > > > > So the health of Linux, both in terms of the rate of development and > > the enterprise server ecosystem, seems to be doing quite well (never > > mind the surge of interest of Linux for mobile platforms). But if you > > want to develop on FreeBSD, hey, don't let us stop you. Different > > licensing strokes for different folks, after all... > > The figures I am quoting are based on who is downloading not how many. I > had over 27,000 downloads the first week but only a few of them were from > fortune 1000 of 500 companies. After two weeks it dropped off sharply to > a very low level. Most of the downloads are still from my primary > servers, and not google or sourceforge. I agree Linux is pervasive
Noone cares about mdb, so there must be something wrong with Linux. Oh, right.
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