Re: User statistics.

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Simon Fowler wrote:

> Not a very good measure of popularity, that - I haven't downloaded a
> window maker release in ages, but I've been using it since 0.12,
> thanks to Debian's archives. I also haven't hit the window maker web
> page for ages, and I imagine most other users haven't, simply
> because there's very little need if your distro packages it for you.
>
> I doubt there's any way you can reasonably measure usage of
> something like window maker without putting a call-home 'feature' in
> it.
>

That would be correct.  Peter asked for statistically meaningful results, 
so I posted statistics that we have available.  There is no way to 
quantify how many people are using releases that are included in the 
multitude of distributions out there.

-phillip
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