From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754323AbYJEKMi (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:12:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751341AbYJEKM3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:12:29 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:59403 "EHLO UNKNOWN" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751244AbYJEKM3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:12:29 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 12:12:19 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com Cc: Theodore Tso , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [REQUEST] Clarification from Copyright Holders on FUSE/NDISWRAPPER Message-ID: <20081005101219.GC2351@ucw.cz> References: <33521.166.70.238.43.1222622153.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> <20080928194536.GC8711@mit.edu> <20080928194616.10d25760@bree.surriel.com> <58677.166.70.238.43.1222644857.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> <20080929015730.GK8711@mit.edu> <49203.166.70.238.43.1222658858.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49203.166.70.238.43.1222658858.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html