From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kin Cho Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How Many Emacs Users? Date: 21 Feb 2004 16:53:28 -0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7illmw3pfb.fsf@neoscale.com> References: <878yiw8aox.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077411747 29628 80.91.224.253 (22 Feb 2004 01:02:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:02:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 22 02:02:23 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Aui0l-0006nz-00 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 02:02:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Aui0W-0007i1-Dy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:02:08 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.arcor-online.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!12.24.46.85!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,alt.religion.emacs Original-Followup-To: alt.religion.emacs Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.24.46.85 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1077411220 50924265 I 12.24.46.85 ([151019]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121110 alt.religion.emacs:8494 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17060 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17060 Based on my own experience, I'd say less than 10% of the unix users use emacs. -kin Pascal Bourguignon writes: > Tim McNamara writes: > > David Kastrup writes: > > > > > Brad Collins writes: > > > > > >> I'm writing a investment proposal and it would be helpful to > > >> include the number of Emacs users (Xemacs etc) are out there. > > >> > > >> Are we talking in the tens, hundreds, a million or more? > > > > How would there be any way to know, unless GNU or FSF keep download > > statistics? And even that woul dnot be reliable, given that there are > > many precompiled binary distributions that GNU/FSF now nothing about. > > There's no sales receipts for Emacs... > > About half the unix users, I'd say. The other half (minus some > epsilon) would be vi users. Well, remove MacOSX users from the unix > user count... > > Between 2 and 4 million I'd say. > -- > __Pascal_Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ > There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he doesn't > want merely because you think it would be good for him.--Robert Heinlein > http://www.theadvocates.org/