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From: tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw)
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs manual sales figures [summary]
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Date: 28 Feb 91 15:24:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM's message of 26 Feb 91 01:18:33 GMT

>>>>> On 26 Feb 91 01:18:33 GMT, Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM said:

> Bob Chassell, Treasurer of the Free Software Foundation, informs me
> that the FSF has shipped about 30,000 GNU Emacs manuals in the past
> five years, and recently has been averaging 800 manuals per month!
> Also ISBN book numbers are being / have been introduced. 

That's a lot!  I reckon that must mean something like 100,000 serious
users of Emacs, possibly rather more, but less than a million.  Does
anyone know how many copies <some random word-processor> ships over
its life?  how about <random commercial Unix editor/word-processor
excluding stuff shipped with Unix (vi, ed &c)>?

--tim
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