On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 02:15:48PM -0600, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> jchacon@genuity.net  wrote:
>  > >> A child could see that your data is hopelessly skewed. 
>  > >
>  > >I did start the counters at zero. The current count represents people who
>  > >have declared themselves to be a user of a given OS or a mix of OSs. 
>  > 
>  > "I'll set all the counters to zero and then fill in OS data for everything 
>  > initially based on data that only measures FreeBSD counts.". Yep, I'd say
>  > that about sums it up. It's fairly obvious to anyone looking at this that's
>  > it's skewed heavily in one direction arbitrarily. To claim otherwise (and
>  > expect anyone to beleive it) is ridiculous.
> 
> 
> I don't get this anyway.  The whole thing is so completely meaningless 
> that it's a disservice to even bother trying.  Basically, it requires 
> people to pro-actively do something in order to make it count.  I have
> better things to do than to go register my 100+ NetBSD machines, so in
> the end, he seems to be counting how many people are running whateverBSD
> and who have nothing better to do with themselves.
> 
> Since FreeBSD is so much higher, maybe we can summarize that FreeBSD
> users have nothing better to do with their time.
> 
> <punt>
> 

I'm working on a script that when run, will cause the machine to register
itself. You may choose to do this or you may choose to do nothing. Either
way its your call.


Josef

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