Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Jason McMullan) | Subject | Re: Last weeks QuickPoll | Date | 17 Jul 1996 17:33:21 GMT |
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David W. Schuler (schuld@btv.ibm.com) wrote: : On Mon, 15 Jul 1996 08:30:36 EDT kday wrote: : > : >Last week the following question was posed on your Quick Poll: : > Will Linux ever be given fair consideration alongside commercial : > OSes on the desktop. : > : >Your summary said that the majority said yes, but the stats shown : >were 47% yes, 53% no. : > : >Am I misreading this?
: Unfortunately, you probably are not misreading this. I think that the : question, in the manner in which it was asked, was fairly answered. The : question should have been asked as a two-part question:
Ummm.... The correct answer is 90% for 10% against (as of Sunday, 7/14/96) I sent mail to the maintainer about the 'majority yes - 53%no' thing and she replied that there had been a software screwup on the server, and the graph was from last week's question....
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