[nzlug] Dell and Linux

[Simon Bridge]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 12:58 +1200, Stephen Judd wrote:
> 70% of survey respondents, eh?
> 
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9013002
... you had to be visiting their website a a prospective customer.
Amongst other things, you got a choice of OS which included several
distros of linux.

Unfortunately, I can no longer see the survey to examine it in detail.

This is, indeed, self selecting and the publicity would mean quite a few
linux/os advocates would do the thing just to get the message across.
however - this is a clear show-of-hands in anybodies book.

> The article doesn't say how the survey was conducted. I will bet you a
> brick to London that the respondents did not comprise anything
> approaching a random sample of Dell customers, but were most likely a
> self-selecting group.
> 
> It's an encouraging number but I wouldn't make any critical decisions
> based on it.
> 
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