2012/8/3 Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]>:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> Lets just face the facts.... Such download statics are just "eye
> candy" for SourceForge. There is no way you can take those as a

Ahahah, i was thinking this graphs were some ad-picture!

> reliable source of information. It's like Microsoft trying to compare
> Windows installs (actually copies shipped to OEM's) to Linux Install.
> Nobody counts torrent downloads of Linux, nobody counts the multiple
> of CD's I created and shared with my friends, nobody counted the
> multiple times I installed a CD even though I only downloaded it once,
> etc...
>
> The same applies to FPC and Lazarus projects. You can install from
> multiple locations: application repositories of Linux distros,
> official downloaded archives, unofficial daily build archive, direct
> checkouts from the repository, the fact that linux downloads tend to
> be lots of little archives and the Windows version one big archive etc
> etc.
>
> So there you have it - those "statistics" are useless!!!
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>   - Graeme -
>
>
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