On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 08:47:47AM -0700, Andreas Ramos wrote:
> Rich is right. Of course any survey is worthless [...]
Your sarcasm is duly noted. But I noticed that you completely
failed to dent the point, which is that any OS survey based on sales
dollars is inherently (and seriously) flawed.
> Of course, market surveys are totally worthless.
Yes, in fact, they are. Perhaps you don't recall that
marketing surveys have said that Unix will fail for going
on 20 years now -- ever since the dim-witted marketeers
first started putting questions about Unix on their surveys.
In that time, we in the Unix world built Usenet, CSnet, and the Internet;
invented the web, perl, and Java; demolished the IPX, SNA, and OSI protocols
by popularizing TCP/IP; and rendered several competing OS's moot.
During all this time, the marketing surveys continued to predict
that Unix would never be successful.
So please explain why we should accord them the merest shred of credibility.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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