Usability Disaster Story  —  In December, someone asked me about how many Mono downloads we had per month to estimate the size of Mono users.  With software like Mono the download numbers do not mean much, because most of our users get their software through their distribution, package channels or as a bundled executable.

Source:   Miguel de Icaza

Link:   http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Jan-24-1.html