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Nick Petreley and KDE/Gnome

Nick Petreley and KDE/Gnome

Posted Aug 4, 2003 15:48 UTC (Mon) by tjc (guest, #137)
Parent article: Evans Data survey on the SCO suit

From the press release:

...considering it a factor in their adoption plans," said Nicholas Petreley, Evans Data's Linux analyst, "It is also interesting to note that KDE has taken a statistically significant lead in use and deployment after running neck and neck with GNOME for the past three years."

The reader should be aware of Nick Petreley's strong bias for KDE and against Gnome when considering the validity of this survey. Nick has written articles such as "KDE 3.1 vs. GNOME 2.2: How GNOME became LAME" [ http://www.linuxworld.com/story/32640.htm ] that reveal his feelings about KDE and Gnome.

I personally don't trust the results of this survey any more than I would of a survey that involved Steve Balmer and found a Microsoft a product to be a developer preference. The actual results may or may not be true, but the lack of objectivity on the part of the people involved causes me to take the results with a large block of salt.


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