On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 16:13 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > On 03/24/2011 03:50 PM, John Stowers wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:18 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > >> I'm working on the press release and I'm finding it hard to figure out: > >> > >> About how many users can I claim GNOME has? (To simplify: the desktop, > >> not the platform.) > > IMO, if you cannot verify it then it is not true. > > > > I would leave numbers or statements like this out, it will only > > encourage flaming, fights, disagreement and bickering (like what happens > > whenever anyone posts 'my distro has XYZ users') > > > > John > > John: How would you feel about an approximation along the lines of > "hundreds of thousands of users" (or whatever a verifiably correct order > of magnitude is)?
Better. But in principle it still makes me uneasy. John > > -Sumana -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
