OS survey

Sun May 29 13:58:50 MST 2011

So I feel the need to counter the argument that windows is dominate
because software is written for it. Since most people here have heard
this rant a few time I will give the short version.
1) windows is not dominate because of the abundance of software.
Software is abundant for windows because it is dominate.
2) windows is dominate because of advertising telling Suzy soccer mom
and Sally the sales manager she needs it.
3) the advertising is effective because there is a profit motive to
making effective advertising.
4) it is a momentum game. Dominance begets dominance.

On 5/29/11, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> No problem, clarification is always beneficial to someone.
>
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Lee Reynolds <Lee.Reynolds at asu.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>        Tech Support Analyst
>>        ASU Advanced Computing Center
>>        GWC-178
>>
>>        480.965.9460 (Office)
>>        480.458.7434 (Mobile)
>>
>>        Have an A2C2 related question or problem?
>>
>>        Just send an email to the following address detailing
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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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