Neethi, this isn't practical because of the vast number of mirrors which redistribute the software...
Bill At 12:14 PM 6/23/2003, Neethi Shastry wrote: >I am a graduate research student at Oakland University, working on a paper >on Open Source Software and new product diffusion analysis for open source >products. I am trying to provide a comparative study with already successful >products such as Linux and the Apache server to go with it. I am looking >towards gathering information on the number of downloads over an extended >period of time.(Preferably from the first release to date) and I haven't >been able to come up with accurate information, after repeated searches on >the net. I would greatly appreciate it, if I could be directed towards the >URL where this would be available. Thank you very much for your time. > >Regards, >Neethi Shastry