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Re: How Many Emacs Users?
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Tim McNamara |
Subject: |
Re: How Many Emacs Users? |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:42:59 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) |
Pascal Bourguignon <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com> writes:
> Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:
>> 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...
>
> 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...
Not all (Emacs 21.3.50.1 on powerpc-apple-darwin 7.2.0 a.k.a. OS X
10.3.2). OS X comes with Emacs as part of the standard distribution,
not that most OS X users have even the slightest awareness of that
fact.
> Between 2 and 4 million I'd say.
That's pretty cool.
- How Many Emacs Users?, Brad Collins, 2004/02/21
- Re: How Many Emacs Users?, David Kastrup, 2004/02/21
- Re: How Many Emacs Users?, Tim McNamara, 2004/02/21
- Re: How Many Emacs Users?, Pascal Bourguignon, 2004/02/21
- Re: How Many Emacs Users?, Kin Cho, 2004/02/21
- Re: How Many Emacs Users?, Brad Collins, 2004/02/21
- Message not available
- Re: How Many Emacs Users?, David Kastrup, 2004/02/22
- Re: How Many Emacs Users?, Per Abrahamsen, 2004/02/22
- Re: How Many Emacs Users?,
Tim McNamara <=
Re: How Many Emacs Users?, Joe Corneli, 2004/02/21