From kde-devel Tue Jul 27 16:05:04 1999 From: David Sweet Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:05:04 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: KDE 1.2-Preview: eyecandy.png X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93309152701994 On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Kurt Granroth wrote: > David Sweet wrote: > > So in this screenshot it says that KDE is used by millions. How do we > > know? From FTP logs? > > Of course, it is impossible to know for *sure* how many KDE users there > are... but I think it is safe to say millions. One quick rule of thumb > goes like so: There are an estimated 12 million Linux users. Nearly all > polls I've seen about "window managers" put KDE usage at about 60% This is > over 7 million users. Even if ALL of the polls are wrong are we only have > a 10% market share, it is *still* over a million users. > > 'Nother rule of thumb: all new distributions besides Debian include KDE. > Sales of these distros is in the millions. > > 'Nother rule of thumb: Martin can probably bring out the FTP logs from the > MASTER server (not counting *any* mirrors!).. but if my memory holds, we > are talking about GIGAbytes of data every month. Note that this doesn't > include mirrors and doesn't include those people getting KDE from CD-ROM > (the majority, I think). > > Estimating how *many* millions is tricky.. but I think it's pretty much > guaranteed that the marketshare is at least *in* the millions... > -- > Kurt Granroth | granroth@kde.org > KDE Developer/Evangelist | http://www.pobox.com/~kurt_granroth > KDE -- Putting a Friendly Face on Linux Cool... so do you have a rule of thumb for estimating the number of developers? I'd like to write about these numbers. Dave