Questionable statement in article

[Glenn Sieb]

Ceri Davies said the following on 8/8/2004 4:23 PM:

>On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 08:24:10PM +0200, Joel Dahl wrote:
>  
>
>>From
>>/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.html:
>>
>>"BSD can execute Linux code, while Linux can not execute BSD code. As a
>>result, more software is available for BSD than for Linux."
>>
>>The last sentence can't be an established fact that's measurable in
>>numbers, or am I wrong? No big deal, but why not just cut it down to:
>>
>>"BSD can execute Linux code, while Linux can not execute BSD code."
>>    
>>
>
>I don't think anyone has actually counted, but it's essentially a
>tautology:
> For code(bsd) > 0, code(bsd) + code(linux) > code(linux).
>
But this only holds as long as code(bsd) > code(linux) to begin with.... 
no? Do we know for a fact that code(bsd) > code(linux)? I know I've been 
hard pressed to find software from vendors that was marketed as being 
developed for BSD, as opposed to Linux or Solaris, etc....

Best,
G.