That is pretty fricking cool. It's not an astronomical figure and realistically could be contended from many directions but still some idea of the userbase, I call that significant. =]
On Nov 14, 2007 11:52 AM, Brian Vincent brian.vincent@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 13, 2007 4:45 PM, Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org wrote:
Does anyone know whom we can contact at Valve for more specific results?
Here's the answer from Valve to your question:
Hey Brian, we would be more than happy to help. I just did a quick query for the audio device and found 12 out of 8566 results to contain "wine" in the name of the driver. I did the same for video card and found zero, if you can give me more details on specific strings or signatures for a wine user I could have a look for. We just started this survey today so I can run the queries again once we have a larger sample set.
Our crash reporting system also collects information about the existence of wine, about 0.4% of the reports are from Wine users (this is for a couple months of data so a statistically significant sample). We have around 3 million unique users in a month so that is around 12k wine users. Given the large majority of crashes are game code related (and not OS dependant) I suspect this is a fair measure for you.
-Brian