--On Tuesday, October 03, 2006 06:57:31 +0200 Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Marc G. Fournier wrote on Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 10:28:34PM -0300:
Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email
me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD?
I doubt the project is worth the effort at all.
Whatever numbers might result will be heavily biased.
BSDstats is typical bloatware that lots of OpenBSD
users will hate (not all, mind you, but many more than
e.g. in Linuxland).
Besides, the OpenBSD community tends to just not care
about marketing. OpenBSD is about correctness, simplicity,
freedom and security. Popularity is *not* among the
project goals. Most of the developers work on it because
they need good code themselves - and certainly not in
order to become famous.
Thus, i should expect the following attitude from typical
OpenBSD users: A software for measuring popularity?
The thing is, this software isn't meant to measure popularity, at least not
*between* the *BSDs ... quite frankly, I don't care that you run OpenBSD vs
FreeBSD, I care that you run *BSDs vs Linux vs Windows vs ...
What the software is measuring, or is trying to measure, is the number of
active *BSD installations there are ...
Do I expect to get 100% buy in? Hell no ...
What I'm hoping for is to get high enough numbers *over time* to show places
like Intel and Adaptec that by not being *truly open source* with their drivers
and such, they are missing out on, what I think is, a large market ...
This isn't a short term thing ... our goal is to show long term trends, and,
hopefully, growth of *BSD usage in general ... to provide *reasonable* metrics
for ppl like Theo to go at places like Adaptec with and point out what they
missing by not being 'truly open' ...
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