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Re: How Many Emacs Users?
From: |
Kin Cho |
Subject: |
Re: How Many Emacs Users? |
Date: |
21 Feb 2004 16:53:28 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Based on my own experience, I'd say less than 10% of the unix users
use emacs.
-kin
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...
>
> Between 2 and 4 million I'd say.
> --
> __Pascal_Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
> There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he doesn't
> want merely because you think it would be good for him.--Robert Heinlein
> http://www.theadvocates.org/
Re: How Many Emacs Users?, Joe Corneli, 2004/02/21