Rich Kulawiec said:
> 
> My best guess -- based on back-of-the-envelope calculations like
> the one I gave in my message, plus download statistics from various
> sites, plus 15 years of continuous work in the freeware world, is
> that the current Linux & etc. development community numbers somewhere 
> around 500,000.  The user community is probably about ten times that size.

The Halloween II document did the calcs for you. They quoted a Forbes
article, citing Linux in 1998 with 7.5M users and 1.5M lines of code.

--bill

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