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From: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: *BSD counter: 820 registered users of free BSD versions
Date: 1 Oct 1994 03:00:04 +0100
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How to get registered
=====================

In brief:

  Send E-mail to bsd-counter@uninett.no with the SUBJECT line
  
    "I use <BSDversion> at <place>"

Introduction
============
The intention of this counting project is to count all users of UNIXes
that are:

 - BSD-derived
 - Freely available

The variants NetBSD, 386BSD and FreeBSD are currently distinguished.

(NOTE: Linux is NOT BSD-derived. If you use that, send mail to
linux-counter@uninett.no instead!!!)

The information is *not* used for any purpose but statistics, and unless
you request it, information about single persons are *never* made public.
(A list of users who have requested publication is available from the
FTP file ftp://aun.uninett.no/pub/misc/386bsd/persons)

How to register
===============
Send E-mail to bsd-counter@uninett.no

The subject should be

  I use <version> at <place>

where "version" can be NetBSD, 386BSD and FreeBSD; "place" can be
school, work or home.

You will get back a letter with 3 things:

  - An acknowledgement
  - A form that you can fill out and send in with more information
    about yourself, your machine, and your 386bsd-using friends
  - A report giving the current status of the counter

You can update your "vote" at any time, by sending an E-mail message
from the same account. Duplicates will be weeded out.

The current report, available by anonymous FTP to aun.uninett.no,
directory pub/misc/386bsd-counter, file "short", is given below.

For all questions, contact Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no!
------------------------------------------------------------
Status of the Free BSD counter, as of Fri Sep 30 18:00:26 MET 1994

There are 820 registered users of free BSD versions


PLACES WHERE FREE BSD IS USED
==========================
 Self Other   Sum %Sum  Place
  504    29   533  64% home
  219    10   229  27% work
  108     1   109  13% somewhere
   45     0    45   5% school
    7     0     7   0% not used
--------------------------
  790    37   827 100% TOTAL

NOTE: Some people use free BSD in multiple places, so the total is not
the sum of the columns.

COUNTRIES WHERE FREE BSD IS USED
=============================
      Country                    Self Other   Sum  MPop Free BSD/M
---------------------------------------------------------------
 1 is Iceland                       2     0     2     0.3   7.9
 2 no Norway                       14     0    14     4.3   3.3
 3 fi Finland                      15     0    15     5.0   3.0
 4 au Australia                    48     0    48    17.1   2.8
 5 se Sweden                       24     0    24     8.6   2.8
 6 nl Netherlands                  22     0    22    14.9   1.5
 7 nz New Zealand                   5     0     5     3.4   1.5
 8 us USA                         353     9   362   249.6   1.4
 9 ee Estonia                       2     0     2     1.6   1.2
10 dk Denmark                       6     0     6     5.1   1.2
11 de Germany                      93     2    95    79.1   1.2
12 ca Canada                       31     0    31    26.6   1.2
13 ie Ireland                       3     0     3     3.5   0.9
14 il Israel                        5     0     5     6.3   0.8
15 gb Great Britain                38     0    38    57.2   0.7
16 at Austria                       4     0     4     7.6   0.5
17 hk Hong Kong                     3     0     3     5.9   0.5
18 cz Czech Rebublic                5     0     5    10.0   0.5
19 za South Africa                 14     0    14    30.2   0.5
20 fr France                       22     2    24    56.2   0.4
21 sg Singapore                     1     0     1     2.7   0.4
22 gr Greece                        2     0     2    10.1   0.2
23 jp Japan                        21    11    32   123.3   0.2
24 ch Switzerland                   1     0     1     6.7   0.1
25 tw Taiwan                        3     0     3    20.3   0.1
26 hu Hungary                       1     2     3    10.5   0.1
27 su Soviet Union (former)        14     5    19   147.4   0.1
28 br Brazil                       10     5    15   158.2   0.1
29 my Malaysia                      1     0     1    18.0   0.1
30 it Italy                         3     0     3    57.7   0.1
31 es Spain                         2     0     2    39.5   0.1
32 pl Poland                        1     0     1    38.4   0.0
33 kr Korea (South)                 1     0     1    43.1   0.0
34 ua Ukraine                       1     0     1    51.9   0.0
35 th Thailand                      1     0     1    57.6   0.0
36 in India                         3     0     3   844.0   0.0
37 xe Europe (Somewhere in it)      1     0     1   320.0   0.0
38 xx Unknown                       4     1     5  5000.0   0.0
39 xw The World (Somewhere in i     3     0     3  5000.0   0.0