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[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:

> I don’t know how many users we have; especially the number of 
> desktop users seem to be very low (are there more than 50?).

What is the source of this estimate?  I did not know that we were 
supposed to register our systems somewhere.  Is there a central 
registration portal for Illumos-based systems?

> There might be more users for the server oriented distributions but 
> compared to the numbers of BSDs or even Linux the number is for sure 
> marginal.

What constitutes a server 'user'?

What percentage of Ubuntu Linux users donate money to the Ubuntu 
project?  Do you have a ready-made statistic for that?

> So the question is: how can we change the situation?

Perhaps working on useful code to fill perceived gaps rather than 
engaging in debate is the solution.

Bob
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