Subject: Re: Listings on Shareware Sites
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 18:55:59 CDT
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Jared Davis wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I've come up with a short list of about 40 shareware/freeware sites
> that list AbiWord. You can see the complete spreadsheet in gnumeric or
> excel format at:
> http://www.aiksaurus.com/~jared/abiword/
>
> Some highlights:
> cnet.com claims 78,000 windows downloads and 13,000 linux downloads.
> sourceforge.net claims 27,000 downloads of 0.9.2.
> freshmeat.net claims 20,000 hits sent to abiword's home page.
> wexes.com claims 4,500 downloads.
> zdnetasia.com claims 1,000 downloads.
> pcworld.com claims 1,000 downloads.
>
> Unfortunately, many of these sites are sorely out of date. In particular,
> CNet's site is still listing version 0.7.13 for the windows download, and
> 0.7.1 or the linux download. This is kind of bad because CNet is
> seemingly responsible for a very large amount of downloads.
>
> This probably isn't imperative right now, but for the 1.0 release it might
> be well worth the time it would take to contact these sites. Maybe we
> should come up with a release strategy that involves updating some of
> these sites? A simple spreadsheet could serve as a good database if we
> kept it updated, and you could spread the responsibility out so that
> each person who was willing to contact these sites would only have to
> contact a few of them. My list certainly isn't comprehensive, but it only
> took an hour or so of google searching to create.
>
> Thoughts?
>
This is a great idea Jared. I think of a few more off the top of my
head.
1. TuCows.com
2. download.com
3. DaveCentral.com
Cheers
Martin
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