From: Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net>
Subject: Re: How Many Emacs Users?
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:32:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2u11k8erd.fsf@Stella-Blue.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x5brnsk0xu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Brad Collins <brad@studiojungle.net> 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...
> Two, and I am one of them. Apart from that, talking about Emacs
> being "usable" is an insult, much like calling your spouse "usable"
> and trying to estimate her worth by the number of other suitors.
WTF are you on about, David?
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[not found] <mailman.239.1077368429.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-21 13:38 ` How Many Emacs Users? David Kastrup
2004-02-21 18:32 ` Tim McNamara [this message]
2004-02-21 20:00 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-02-22 0:53 ` Kin Cho
2004-02-22 2:42 ` Brad Collins
[not found] ` <mailman.269.1077417876.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-22 11:53 ` David Kastrup
2004-02-22 13:48 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-02-22 5:42 ` Tim McNamara
[not found] <200402220103.i1M13Q105362@dell3.ma.utexas.edu>
2004-02-22 3:25 ` Joe Corneli
2004-02-21 12:57 Brad Collins
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