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Gerry Sincere

My guess is the high number of articles which are either direct reprint of press releases from M$ or mere re-writes or else quotes w-in articles is very, very high.

There's no one in the linux world spending that kind of money on press releases.

I wouldn't call itfixedexactly...I'd say, they found what they sought to measure..."positive press", which is purchased by M$.

They would then include customer opinion surveys, and so on...

The very existence of a linux paid installed base of three percent, and an unpaid base of about twenty percent is testament to the rejection of M$. The fact that people woulduninstalla built in Windows, from a preinstalled computer and go to the trouble of installing a brand new OS is praise enough for linux.

Like many other pro-M$ "think tanks", such as the Yankee Group and Cato Insbreastute which have been shown to have funding from M$.

I just don't want to be downstream from the b.s. factory...oh, and by the way, have you tried Right Guard ?

All I said was: they are measuring press releases. And M$ buys a lot of press releases.

-- Texeme