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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2012-05-16 23:17:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2012-05-16 23:17:47 +0200 |
| commit | fec096f153a3df6eba3ca7ef13505c5552f7c5c5 (patch) | |
| tree | cda007733ea0f9fc67d957250a66818a4534ab90 /docs/FAQ | |
| parent | 499ffe2f8c9e825d653b0386c7a1ba8b21824d81 (diff) | |
FAQ: updated 1.10 How many are using curl?
Now linking to http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/05/16/300m-users/
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@@ -306,41 +306,10 @@ FAQ We don't know how many users that downloaded or installed curl and then never use it. - Some facts to use as input to the math: - - curl packages are downloaded from the curl.haxx.se and mirrors over a - million times per year. curl is installed by default with most Linux - distributions. curl is installed by default with Mac OS X. curl and libcurl - as used by numerous applications that include libcurl binaries in their - distribution packages (like Adobe Acrobat Reader and Google Earth). - - More than a hundred known named companies use curl in commercial - environments and products and more than a hundred known named open source - projects depend on (lib)curl. - - In a poll on the curl web site mid-2005, more than 50% of the 300+ answers - estimated a user base of one million users or more. - - In March 2005, the "Linux Counter project" estimated a total Linux user base - of some 29 millions, while Netcraft detected some 4 million "active" Linux - based web servers. A guess is that a fair amount of these Linux - installations have curl installed. - - The Debian project maintains statistics on packages installed by people - who have voluntarily run their package counting application. In mid-2010, - libcurl3 was installed on over 55000 such systems (62% of reporting systems) - and was one of the 320 most popular installed packages (out of about 107000 - possible packages). - - All this taken together, there is no doubt that there are millions of - (lib)curl users. - - http://curl.haxx.se/docs/companies.html - http://curl.haxx.se/docs/programs.html - http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/using/apps.html - http://counter.li.org/estimates.php - http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/03/14/fedora_makes_rapid_progress.html - http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=curl + In May 2012 Daniel did a counting game and came up with a number that may + be completely wrong or somewhat accurate. 300 million! + + See http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/05/16/300m-users/ 1.11 Why don't you update ca-bundle.crt |