That is pretty fricking cool. It's not an astronomical figure and realistically could be contended from many directions but still some idea of the userbase, I call that significant. =]
On Nov 14, 2007 11:52 AM, Brian Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 13, 2007 4:45 PM, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know whom we can contact at Valve for more specific results? > > Here's the answer from Valve to your question: > > ---- > > Hey Brian, we would be more than happy to help. I just did a quick query > for the audio device and found 12 out of 8566 results to contain "wine" > in the name of the driver. I did the same for video card and found zero, > if you can give me more details on specific strings or signatures for a > wine user I could have a look for. We just started this survey today so > I can run the queries again once we have a larger sample set. > > Our crash reporting system also collects information about the existence > of wine, about 0.4% of the reports are from Wine users (this is for a > couple months of data so a statistically significant sample). We have > around 3 million unique users in a month so that is around 12k wine > users. Given the large majority of crashes are game code related (and > not OS dependant) I suspect this is a fair measure for you. > > ---- > > -Brian > > > -- Cheers, Bryan