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Re: Desktop Linux Survey
by sjvn on Thursday 23/Aug/2007, @06:26

> Does anyone know if there was any checking for non-unique IPs in this survey?

Yes, we checked and blocked non-unique IPs from non-corporate IP ranges and we tracked corporate use IP ranges. This prevented Joe Home Linux Fan from voting over and over again. We also made sure that JoesLinux.com couldn't stuff the ballot box for JoesLinux.

The data made it pretty clear that the GNOME bump came from Ubuntu users.

FWIW, as a dyed in the wool KDE user, I think they don't know what they're missing.

Steven

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Re: Desktop Linux Survey
by Konqi on Thursday 23/Aug/2007, @09:44

> The data made it pretty clear that the GNOME bump came from Ubuntu users.

Erm, how is this supposed to work mathematically? During the 10000 vote "peaks" in question openSUSE votes had to increase up to 40% for the whole duration of the peaks to get 20% for the total vote. During that time the amount of Ubuntu users must have _decreased_ actually. So I can hardly see how you can attribute the change of the poll to the Ubuntu users.

> FWIW, as a dyed in the wool KDE user,
> I think they don't know what they're missing.

We know that you like KDE. You know it's neither meant as a rant, nor a personal attack :-)

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