Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> John: How would you feel about an approximation along the lines of
> "hundreds of thousands of users" (or whatever a verifiably correct order
> of magnitude is)?

Millions or tens of millions is better. Canonical updated their user
count to 12 million last year:

http://ostatic.com/blog/canonical-announces-12-million-ubuntu-users-google-makes-a-comeback

And Jos recently pointed out that OpenSuse counts between 7 and 8
million users: http://en.opensuse.org/Statistics

So combine OpenSuse's measured numbers and Ubuntu's approximate market
share, and 12 million looks like a serious underestimate - 20 million
would be more accurate, perhaps.

Cheers,
Dave.
-- 
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org