From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 2 07:06:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA26074 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 07:06:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA26068 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 07:06:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfieber@indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA07454; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 10:05:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 10:05:35 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Greg Lehey cc: Amancio Hasty , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Window manager vote (was: http://www.plig.org/xwinman/vote.html) In-Reply-To: <19971102120337.06871@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 1997 at 11:39:23AM -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > Care to vote for your favorited window manager ? > > > > I of course voted for enlightenment 8) > > Hmm. I don't know enlightenment, except what people have said about > it over the last few days, but exactly that makes me suspicious about > a poll which gives it over 40% of all votes. I'd guess that this is > not a typical cross-section of the X public. Any comments? Web opinion polls like this are completely bogous. The only thing they measure is how evangelical people are about the software they use. For example, a BYTE web poll showed that about 45% of "computer users" use OS/2 exclusively. Sure. -john