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Date:      Sun, 2 Nov 1997 10:05:35 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Window manager vote (was: http://www.plig.org/xwinman/vote.html)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971102095603.4270D-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19971102120337.06871@lemis.com>

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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




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