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Web survey?

Posted Feb 13, 2006 21:21 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
In reply to: Web survey? by dmarti
Parent article: A new Linux/Windows TCO study

In my opinion, it is good advocacy to be as critical of studies that come out favorably for OSS as we are about "studies" that don't, regardless of the sponsor.

People take notice when an advocate says, hey, I agree with the outcome of this study, but the methodology has this (fill in the blank) problem.

Likewise, people notice when an advocate is just cheerleading.


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Web survey?

Posted Feb 14, 2006 15:43 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

"" Likewise, people notice when an advocate is just cheerleading.""

At center target... at least for IT aware people.

Dont cheerlead rethoric, that only is advantageous to the party that *lie* the best, because common Joe will always go with the noise.

Promoting solutions, clear well documented HOWTOs with examples, like LTSP deployments and others, should be the norm for OSDL and others, because it would be advantageous to all from Corp to corner shop.

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