OS survey

[Lee Reynolds]

I apologize.  I misunderstood.  I'm new to the mailing list and a little too used to dealing with fanboys elsewhere.


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-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Dazed_75
Sent: Sun 5/29/2011 11:30 AM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: OS survey
 
1)  If the link I provided is bad (probablt because I had alreadt voted and tried to strip the resulting URL to what I thought would work, just go to http://www.betanews.com/ and scroll down to the story.

2) I did not, and would not, suggest stuffing a ballot box.  I was merely making known that the ballot box existed.  Many of the people here still use Windows as a primary OS and would vote that way.  If anything I was trying to ensure a valid result by making the survey known in an environment where it might not otherwise be known so that linux might get a fairer representation.

3) Ballot stuffing is generally where one person votes multiple times (possibly using other voter names): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballot_stuffing .  I am not doing that.


On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Lee Reynolds <Lee.Reynolds at asu.edu> wrote:


	Stuffing ballot boxes fools no one.  That's the kind of thing that the RONulans do with online surveys, so often in fact that some informal surveys have deliberately excluded Ron Paul from the list of choices so the culties don't have something to go click happy about.
	
	MS owns the desktop because of applications.  Everything Suzy soccer mom wants to use runs on Windows.  Everything Dan the manager man wants to use runs on Windows.  The way to break their hold is not by artificially exaggerating the number of Linux users in online polls, but by developing powerful applications that are platform agnostic.  When the day comes that the majority of the software a person wants to use will run on any operating system they care to use, the playing field will be level and MS will lose its entrenched advantage.
	
	That being said, I'm not particularly interested in going after MS just for the sake of going after MS.  Reagan once said that we would not defeat communism, but transcend it.  That's pretty much how I feel about MS.
	
	
	
	Lee Reynolds
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	-----Original Message-----
	From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Dazed_75
	Sent: Sun 5/29/2011 10:24 AM
	To: Main PLUG discussion list
	Subject: OS survey
	
	I think of http://www.betanews.com/ as a primarily Windows focused site and they are re-asking what OS people use.  The story and voting is at http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Could-70-percent-of-you-be-running-Windows-7
	
	Currently Linux is at about 7% and I thought some of you might want to get a vote in.
	
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