From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REQUEST] Clarification from Copyright Holders on FUSE/NDISWRAPPER
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 12:12:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081005101219.GC2351@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49203.166.70.238.43.1222658858.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com>
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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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-28 17:15 [REQUEST] Clarification from Copyright Holders on FUSE/NDISWRAPPER jmerkey
2008-09-28 19:45 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-28 19:24 ` jmerkey
2008-09-28 23:46 ` Rik van Riel
2008-09-28 23:34 ` jmerkey
2008-09-29 1:57 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-29 3:27 ` jmerkey
2008-09-30 4:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-09-30 4:18 ` jmerkey
2008-10-05 10:12 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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