Official Fedora Survey 2015

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Joe Wulf <joe_wulf at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> said, on Monday, May 11, 2015 4:20
> PM
>
>> > But, BTW, a car IS a "faster horse". Isn't?
>
>> One thing worth noting is that Ford had some pretty good feedback on
>> whether he was right or not. People bought his cars, or they didn't --
>> and either the company made a profit, or failed. We don't count
>> anything that is equivalent to that in Fedora. I'm definitely open to
>> ideas on how we could do that.
>
> Couldn't a simple web counter of completed downloads be implemented, and
> showed for reference?

No.  Ignoring the fact that people download from mirrors, bittorrent,
get copies from conferences on physical media, etc, you have no idea
how many computers a single image instance was installed on.  Think of
large corporations that use Fedora internally (they exist).  They
aren't going to download one copy of the image per machine.  They'll
download one copy internally and use that.  Or university
installfests, etc.

josh