On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:18:59 -0600 "Aaron J. Seigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IMHO what more people downloading Sylpheed shows that there are orders of > magnitude more desktop windows users than desktop linux users and that > people, regardless of OS they use, like free stuff. so if even a small > fraction of windows users who like free stuff pick up a program like > sylpheed, which is not exactly a dominant app in its space in the linux > world, they will outnumber linux users easily. in other words, no surprise. > > where i get nervous is jumping from that obvious and undoubtedly correct > foundational statement to conclusions about long term propagation. that's a > big leap to make and one that doesn't follow purefly from "more downloads!" > Actually it was pointed out in the meeting - it was just omitted from the notes for conciseness. The attendees were aware that it was a leap in logic but just optimistically construed the users who downloaded the windows version as potential members of the OSS community. Thank you, -- SAKUMA, Junichi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 199D 03E9 E7C0 CC66 E2D9 AD3F CB2E F76F 8AD9 FC62 _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
