"dE ." <de.tec...@gmail.com> writes: > http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2011-10/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm
> You might have 60% usage of Debian but for the world it's 0.02%. I've never been fond of putting too much weight on this sort of statistic. One of the delightful things about Debian is that the project consists of a group of people who are working together to create something that, primarily, we all want to use. Making it usable for everyone else as well is, of course, a wonderful goal and something that many of us care a lot about. But I think it's important not to lose sight of the fact that world-wide adoption on the order of Windows is not a requirement for the Debian project to be a success. Debian is successful every time I boot a system and it's running Debian, every time Debian solves my problems, every time I can fix something I ran into because it's Debian and I can help make it better. It's *fun* if I can get more people to use Debian, and it's important to have an influx of new blood and new ideas to keep Debian fresh and responsive, but that's about *keeping* Debian successful, not about *making* Debian successful. If we have enough developers to maintain and improve Debian even at the rate that we're maintaining and improving Debian today, to me that's a success, and I don't really care whether that number ever moves off of 0.02%. One of the great things about free software is that we're not a business: we don't live or die by market share, we aren't going to get bought out by someone else if we don't become a big enough fish, and we don't have to grow 10% a year or implode. It would certainly be *nice* to attract more people and more users and improve even faster, and I certainly wouldn't want to stand in the way of that, but it's not part of my metric of success. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wr9b9t0x....@windlord.stanford.edu