Hi, Brian Cameron wrote: >> Millions of people already use GNOME, today. > > "Millions" is a big number. Can we site a resource? If not, perhaps > we should be more vague and say something like "People around the world > are discovering the advantages of using GNOME. If you have not yet made > the switch to supporting free software, there is no time like the > present!"
Some possible sources: * Ubuntu user numbers: Over 8 million http://www.redherring.com/Home/20497 "Q:What about growth in adoption rates, any kind of numbers that you can give me? A:We know now that there are probably at least 8 million [Ubuntu] users." A Canonical merson told me recently that "the vast majority of those are running GNOME". * Ubuntu market share: According to Desktop Linux, roughly 30% http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8454912761.html Add in the GNOME users on RHEL, Fedora Core, SLED, OpenSuse, Debian, ... Let's make some basic assumptions just to make a rough calculation. First, let's assume that the market share stats from desktoplinux are accurate, and that Mark's statement holds water. If 30% = 8M, 100% = 26.7M (which tallies closely with the Linux counter estimate), and the distribution user bases break down like this: Ubuntu: 8 M Suse: 5.6 M Other Debian: 3.75M Fedora/RH: 2.4 M Gentoo: 1.8 M Others: 4.8 M (yes, this adds up to 99%) Let's be generous and break Ubuntu down 75/25 GNOME/KDE - 6 million GNOME users. Let's say that Suse users now break 50/50, given that GNOME is the default there. 2.8M. Other Debian: let's be generous and break that down 55/45 to KDE (Knoppix, Mepis, etc...): 1.7M. And for Fedora, GNOME's got a long-standing relationship, so let's break that 80/20 to us too. 1.92M. Let's assume, for arguments sake, that all Gentoo users are not using GNOME, and of the 18% "Others", let's break that down 60/40 to KDE. 1.92M GNOME users. Grand total: 14.34M GNOME users of a total base of 26.7M. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
