Re: Statistics on non-free usage
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:17:25PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > But as you said, it doesn't really prove anything, only that the people
> > using popularity contest don't really use these non-free packages much.
> > What about all those who don't run popularity contest, or those who are
> > offline ?
>
> We'd need somebody good enough at statistics to measure the error popcon
> introduces. I don't think it's in the order of the S/N ratio, though.
Yep, but the package i maintain have 0 entries in popcon, while i
know this is not the real case. This means infinite error ratio, no ?
> > What about monitoring BTS traffic for those packages ?
>
> That sounds like a very useful analysis, too. Would you volunteer to do
> this?
Nope, i have no time for it.
But again, it is to the camp of the remove non-free to do this.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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