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[Knapp]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
>> As a business person, I really don't care much about the percent of
>> systems but more the total number that might use my product. I would
>> think you might get an idea of this with the number of downloads of
>> 8.04 plus the other top 10 on the distrowatch list.
>
>    Download counts are utterly unreliable as a metric.
>
> --
>         Steve C. Lamb         | But who decides what they dream?

Honestly, everything is unreliable as a metric but at least downloads
give you some idea. Naturally, some might download 2 times, some use
torrent, some get it from a friend and others just stay with their old
systems. But is still a good indication of the number of systems out
there.


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Douglas E Knapp

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