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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Vote on the Best OS
Date: 23 Feb 1994 21:26:03 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <2kfe62$3aj@trane.uninett.no>,
Harald T. Alvestrand <hta@uninett.no> wrote:

>(At the moment, approx 509 people have done so; 5155 have registered with
>the Linux counter, linux-counter@uninett.no. This either shows a sharp
>difference in the number of users, or shows bias on the part of the
>count taker, or something else. I'm not sure what.)

Or that alot of BSD folks have better things to do with their time (like
make it better) than to answer surveys which are (no offense)
meaningless.

I give you credit for the effort, but still think the results have very
little value.



Nate
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