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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How Many Emacs Users?
Date: 21 Feb 2004 14:38:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5brnsk0xu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.239.1077368429.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

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?

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.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.

Xpost and Fupto alt.religion.emacs

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

       reply	other threads:[~2004-02-21 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.239.1077368429.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-21 13:38 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-02-21 18:32   ` How Many Emacs Users? Tim McNamara
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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