Amount of MorphOS copies sold

[wawrzon]

disapiointing? given the amount of active members, poll entries and downloads i would count somewhere about 300 active users for os4, about the same for advanced 68k, not counting unexpanded/gaming crowd. and aros scoring under 100 serious users atm, mos of them devs themselves. i even think mos registration thread exaggerate the actual numbers as many registered might drop it by the time. realistic number should be divided by half at least i think.

[wawrzon]

After long time analyzing this, thinking it through.. I have found the answer. The answer is.. "no-one knows". Hallelujah!

actually, someone knows. for os4 it will be steven solie who admitted himself to know since he handles os4 registration/serial numbers. on mos someone will be handling serial numbers and licences as well, im certain. it leaves aros alone in the open as there is no centralized official distribution, and of course the classic users will forever reamain this dangerous shapeless anarchistic mass never to be brought under control, as it is their tradition..

so as conclusion: someone knows but for some reason they dont want to tell.

[wawrzon]

i rather doubt that it is safe to add up the downloads of both distros to sum up that there were 3k different individuals downloading. i would expect many people downloaded or resumed download (which would supposedly count as download) multiple times for several reasons and also that those interested downloaded both versions independently. still this is quite a number indicating a high potential user interest, which actually dramatically exceeds the numbers related to, say, os4 downloads.

[wawrzon]

Sorry, I can't understand what do you mean with the passage in bold. Download number has been first calculated starting from the moved terabytes (2.77 TB), divided by the size of the package (less than 1 GB): starting and resuming a download would still totalize 1 GB of transferred data. Then it was proved by numbers of hits and visits, so I am sure at least 3,000 copies of the Live! package are now stored on the same number of different hard drives.

This doesn't mean we have 3,000 users, of course, but that there are 3,000 people interested in trying Icaros, which is more likely, and also a good result in general. Even if 1 on 5 would decide to keep AROS installed and play around with it from time to time, that would mean having 600 users. But also gaining 300 would be a great success. We're talking about a hobby, after all, and I can't be happier of the result.

okay, lets say even that method of counting downloads might be inaccurate. taking such a huge piece of a file into account a user might not be successful and choose to restart. even though even halved its still a huge number for amiga relations. even though im not personally interested in aros x86 at this time i applaud.

[wawrzon]

Though in truth, this topic has gone off target

you mean with aros downloads? at least it turned to something constructive instead useless claims that will never be verified.