From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How Many Emacs Users? Date: 21 Feb 2004 21:00:30 +0100 Organization: [posted via Easynet Spain] Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <878yiw8aox.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077394664 13356 80.91.224.253 (21 Feb 2004 20:17:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 21 21:17:33 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 1AudZ7-0003tR-00 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:17:33 +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 1AudXW-0002fq-4Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:15:54 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nnx.oleane.net!oleane!easynet-quince!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,alt.religion.emacs User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=:]X_O3io@NVJ:SX^WnjMCTSiHWb3f14:SbBd4DjF1d]Q Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121104 alt.religion.emacs:8493 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:17054 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17054 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/