On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:19:20PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Hi *, > > Bearing in mind: > > * www.debian.org/social_contract says Debian's "priorities are our > users and free software", > * popcon.debian.org currently reports 91,523 submissions, > * popcon.ubuntu.com currently reports 1,493,440 submissions, and > * that this is something of a trick question, > > What's your estimate of the current number of Debian users?
Raw guess: around a million. - Installations != users - Not all users install popcon - Installations on mainframes or LAN servers usually have several users. I'm not going to count web server users (then the whole Internet-using world is probably a Debian user), but if they have an account on the system, I think you can call them a 'Debian user', even if they don't know. Given that, a ratio of 10 users to one popcon result seems more or less appropriate > (Or, if by the time you've read this some of the other candidates have > already responded, how would you adjust their estimate/s?) None of them have, apparently. Would be interesting to see that, though :-) -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html
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