OS survey

[Dazed_75]

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.
>
>
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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.
>
> --
> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
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Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions,
that I wish it always to be kept alive.
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