After takin' a swig o' grog, Erik Funkenbusch belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> 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.
A very ironic post about obsession, indeed, young Funkenbusch.
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