extent of grass distribution?

[Rob Knauerhase]

In an E-mail message, Darrell McCauley wrote:
>Can anyone provide a guess of the number of grass installations there
>are across the world? >10,000? >100,000? 
>How many CD's are being produced for the grass conference?
>How many copies do vars sell?
>How many copies does the open grass foundation distribute?

I can't address the above, but your last question is right up my alley. :)

>How many copies are snagged from moon?

Around 300 copies of GRASS (the whole distribution!) were copied from the
moon between 7/92 and 10/92.  I haven't cross-referenced this by
host, but I'd assume that this is not the same people over and over.
    The usage of the FTP server has ramped continuously up since its inception
(almost a year ago).  So, if you want to extrapolate from the period above,
I'd underestimate for 12/91-7/92 and overestimate for 10/92-12/92.

    Look for more data about moon stats and GRASShopper list usage in
upcoming issues of the _GRASSClippings_ magazine/journal.

Rob
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Rob Knauerhase [rob at amber.cecer.army.mil]  Office of GRASS Integration
Construction Engineering Research Labs, US Army Corps of Engineers
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