Hi all well have just added my click and $NZ00:02 - linux users now 20%. what was fun was reading the comments - it's amazing what an articulate pleasant well mannered logical lot we (can) appear to be.
yet another blow against the empire. cheers peter PS: what is a good sign is the number of these polls that have been happening of late. perhaps the linux and OSS messages are beginning to get thru? ==================================== On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 11:40:37 +1300 David Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > The poll at PC World is very non-scientific. It isn't, however, skewed as > you think. The number of comments does not correspond to the number of votes > - i.e. I voted without commenting. Also, the comments are moderated (I > contacted the moderator, Chris Keall at IDG, about the last poll) and you'll > see them go up and down as duplicates and trolls are removed... The bummer > is that they don't list the raw numbers. Ironically, however, sometime > yesterday the pro-linux percentage was up around 29%, having climbed from 17% > the day before. Last time I looked, it'd gone down to 16%... I suspect that > MS sent a message around to all their vendors to call them to "suggest" that > they voice their support for XP :o). Note, by the way, the number of people > who comment that they're planning to move to XP just because their current > Windows version is such crap. Poor sheep. > > Tremble in fear... or run Linux :o) > > Cheers, > > Dave > > On Sunday 28 October 2001 09:05, Robert Sherlock wrote: > > Nick Elder wrote: > > > http://www.pcworld.co.nz/ > > > > > > AND I just had to call there and vote with some rather cutting comments > > > againsed windows and windows XP I am afraid. But my opinion is that > > > if we don't voice againsed windows and eventually be heard, then the > > > masses are just going to keep shelling out to buy a silly and dangerous > > > (with regard to security) operating system. > > > > AND so I just had to read your comments <g>, and the others. In doing > > so I noticed the numbers didn't seem to tie up with the stats. A count > > of the 64 votes listed revealed: > > > > Category Votes %age %age listed on web site > > > > Upgrade ASAP 11 17 36 > > Upgrade in 6mo 9 14 23 > > Upgrade sometime 11 17 14 > > No / product act 11 17 11 > > No / Linux user 22 34 16 > > > > Could there be a bug in Excel XP? > > > > Of course, the paranoid might draw other conclusions <bg>, > > > > Rob > > -------------------------------------------- > > Robert Sherlock, SmartWork Systems Ltd., > > PO Box 36-515, Christchurch, New Zealand. > > Phone (+64) 3 355-4194 Fax (+64) 3 355-4199 > > -------------------------------------------- > > -- > ** David Lane, Director ** Egressive Limited (Chch) ** > ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** PO Box 24162, Christchurch, NZ ** > ** www.egressive.com ** Open Source: software for the discerning palate ** > ** let's make NZ open source friendly - visit www.openz.org ** >
