[scribus] Scribus!

[John Beardmore]

Frank Swygert wrote:

> I can easily agree with your first three points. But what makes you 
> think "Scribus is gaining significant market share."? The number of 
> downloads? That's people looking at, or "checking out", not necessarily 
> USING Scribus, and IS NOT a valid indicator of market share gain. 
> There's no way to tell how many people actually use Scribus, and I 
> suspect that most use it for a rare project and not as an every day or 
> on-going project (such as my quarterly magazine that's been published 
> for 11 years now using PM).

Indeed, though this may be true of some purchases of commercial software 
too.


Cheers, J/.
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