On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:05:30 -0600, Erik Funkenbusch
<erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>In the last 3 months, Roy Schestowitz has posted (out of 8,930 total):
>
>* 1,270 articles containing the word "Vista".
>* 3,470 posts with the word Microsoft.
>* 2,410 posts with the word Windows.
>* 434 posts with MS
>* 405 posts with Gates (308 posts with "Bill Gates")
>* 297 posts with Ballmer (4 with Balmer)
>* 507 posts with XP
>
>(and that's not counting the ones that don't contain a reference in the
>title or summary, but are still about Microsoft or their products)
>
>Now, obviously many of those are overlap (but not all) for isntance:
>
>Windows -Microsoft -Vista = 508
>Microsoft -Windows -Vista = 1070
>Vista -Microsoft -Windows = 102
>
>I haven't been able to figure out a google query that can show how many
>posts don't contain the word "linux" because using -linux matches the
>newsgroup header and removes everything. However, the "insubject" operator
>shows how many subjects contain the word "linux"
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups/search?lr=&safe=off&num=10&q=insubject%3Alinux+author%3ASchestowitz&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=m3
>
>* 2180 subjects contain the word "linux"
>* 1820 subjects contain the word "linux" and "[News]"
>* 624 subjects containing -insubject:linux ("red hat" OR ubuntu OR debian
>OR distribution OR mepis OR kubuntu OR xgl OR compiz OR beryl OR Mandriva
>OR kde OR gnome) author:Schestowitz
>
>However, with around 40% of the content relating to Windows, and around 25%
>containing the word "linux" or a common distro or component, it looks
>pretty pathetic.
The slippery slope of MS is part of the good news of Linux expansion.
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