After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Windows Outstuffs Linux in Poll
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>| Linux users are accusing the Microsoft-affiliated news site of tampering with
>| the results of an online poll. They believe that the numbers were altered to
>| ensure that a Microsoft-made system was chosen as the winner.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| Reichard also notes that at some point during the poll Linux "magically" lost
>| votes. "At one point Linux had 37 percent of 37,000, which works out to just
>| over 14,000 votes. But when the voting reached 205,000, the poll showed Linux
>| had 6 percent, which is only about 12,000 votes."
> `----
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20010204214800/http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38845,00.html
Nahhhhhhh.
They were probably just using Excel to tabulate and calculate the results,
heh heh.
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Life is a grand adventure -- or it is nothing.
-- Helen Keller
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