I think he said "break point" not "break even" In a previous life, our stats guys in banking considered anything that had 2% share (although I think we used 3%, whatever) of a population was "significant" and worth breaking out for study. Glenn.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Kim, Wireless Internet / Wifi Hotspot Advisor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "List Free Bsd" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:30 AM Subject: RE: Different OS's? Marketshare > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Kim, > > Wireless Internet / Wifi Hotspot Advisor > > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:49 AM > > To: List Free Bsd > > Subject: Different OS's? Marketshare > > > > > > Different OS's? Marketshare... > > > > any idea how many major OS's are out there today and what market share > > they have? > > > > i think > > > > WIN 70% > > Lin 20% > > Apple 5% > > so who is the other 5 % ??? > > > > you realze the statisticians and economists hold that 2 percent is the > > break point... > > > > Break even for what? Oh I get it - break even to make a profit, right? > > Hmm I wonder who gets the profits from the sale of FreeBSD? Do you > suppose > they would be overly concerned with the 2% rule? > > This is one of the (many) problems with trying to hold a free OS up to > a measuring stick designed for measuring commercial OSes. > > Note that Linux is doing much better against these measuring sticks > because > the Linux community, for all their loud proclamations about being GPL, > has been steadily making Linux less and less distinguishable from the > commercial OSs. When for example was the last time you saw a Linux > enthusiast with a burned CDROM of an ISO he downloaded somewhere? The > ones I see all have colorful cardboard boxes with penguins on them > that they bought at Fry's. > > Consider that even if FreeBSD had 50% of all running computers - if those > 50% of computers all belong to people that never buy software and only > run freeware, the people that create these measuring sticks would bend > over backwards to be sure those 50% were not counted. Not because they > have anything against FreeBSD, but simply because the customers of the > data these measuring sticks produce cannot sell anything to that 50% - > thus they don't care if that 50% exists or not. > > Ted > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
