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That is quoting an article from 2002, 21 years ago.

https://everything2.com/title/BSD+is+dying

(I've been using OpenBSD as my primary OS since 2000 so I guess I'm one of the 7000 OGs.)

Yikes, that's embarrassing for me. Thanks. I had checked the link but I didn't notice the post was 2002 as opposed to 2022.

If you click that link, you’ll see it’s a reference to an ancient and prolific Slashdot troll post (“Netcraft confirms it—BSD is dying…”).

>Theo states that there are only 7000 users of OpenBSD.

Just one metric. /r/openbsd has 17k subscribers. Not sure with DaemonForums.

OpenBSD has long since been the most active section on DaemonForums, but it's pretty skewed since there's https://forums.freebsd.org – before that opened FreeBSD was much more active, but that's been a long time.