From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Dec 27 11:27:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw1.netvision.net.il (mailgw1.netvision.net.il [194.90.1.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DEB215155 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 11:27:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ak@freenet.co.uk) Received: from freenet.co.uk (RAS1-p58.rlz.netvision.net.il [62.0.168.60]) by mailgw1.netvision.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA22665; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 21:23:32 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <3867BCF7.82EC9E6B@freenet.co.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 19:24:39 +0000 From: Alex X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dwilde1@thuntek.net Cc: Mark Ovens , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-users@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: We're No.2 [Was: We're No. 1 :)] References: <19991218030314.C323@marder-1> <19991227021230.A1290@marder-1> <38678927.D3DA772F@thuntek.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Donald Wilde wrote: > > Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 03:03:14AM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > Maybe I've missed a post here but it seems we're No.1 in the OS > > > ratings :) (of course *we* all knew that, it's just that everyone > > > else didn't) > > > > > > http://www.deja.com/rate/list_items.xp?CID=11997 > > > > > > > Ahem, we appear to have slipped to 2nd place - *behind* *NT* :( > > > > Mind you, it's not all bad - Linux is *last* > > Due to the dramatic increase in NT posts, I'd suspect that somebody's > automatically stuffing the ballot box... Note that BSD has almost as > many posters as NT, guess MS didn't think it worthwhile to include > trashing us in their automated stuffer. Come on, guys, Microsoft are bad alright, but it's silly even to think that they would do stuff like that. It just isn't worth the risk for them - why would they care about some ballot box? The ratings are a true reflection of reality - let's face it, most servers are either BSD or NT or Solaris/AIX/HP-UX/whatever. Linux is a johnny-come-lately, hence the rating. It just shows that more NT admins knew about the site and voted for NT. If you're a BSD admin, you can go there and vote too (I did). Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message