From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 30 3:32: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7463B37B71B for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 03:32:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2UBVak58657; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 03:31:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Gregory Sutter" , "Kenneth P. Stox" Cc: Subject: RE: FreeBSD 5th in survey of used Linux distributions ! Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 03:31:36 -0800 Message-ID: <000101c0b90c$fab0a2c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20010330023012.G77952@klapaucius.zer0.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Go to the second URL listed here and there is an E-mail address for Evans Data there, and send them an e-mail requesting that the FreeBSD data be put back in. I just did it and if there's enouhg feedback they may do it. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gregory Sutter >Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:30 AM >To: Kenneth P. Stox >Cc: Freebsd-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5th in survey of used Linux distributions ! > > >On 2001-03-29 23:29 -0600, "Kenneth P. Stox" wrote: >> On 30-Mar-01 Jamie Jones wrote: >> > >> > http://www.evansdata.com/dist.htm >> >> And once again, we manage to aim the gun straight at our feet, and >> fire! :-( >> >> "It has been brought to our attention that FreeBSD is not a Linux >> distribution. The data was revised to exclude FreeBSD, and the numbers >> above reflect the corrections. We apologize for the mistake." > >Argh. That's even more unscientific than the original survey. >Perhaps, in the name of not-entirely-ridiculous science, Evans >Data could be persuaded to include the FreeBSD numbers in >another table, with a short explanatory paragraph. > >At least the stories are still up: > >http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17973.html >http://www.businesswire.com/webbox/bw.032801/210870525.htm > >Greg >-- >Gregory S. Sutter The process of scientific discovery >mailto:gsutter@zer0.org is, in effect, a continual flight >http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ from wonder. --Albert Einstein >hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message