No problem, clarification is always beneficial to someone. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Lee Reynolds <lee.reyno...@asu.edu> wrote:
> I apologize. I misunderstood. I'm new to the mailing list and a little > too used to dealing with fanboys elsewhere. > > > 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 > the nature of the question or problem and a service request > will be created automatically: > > supp...@hpchelp.asu.edu > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-boun...@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.reyno...@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 > the nature of the question or problem and a service request > will be created automatically: > > supp...@hpchelp.asu.edu > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-boun...@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 > > The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain > occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. > - Thomas Jefferson > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > -- > 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. > - Thomas Jefferson > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- 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. - Thomas Jefferson
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