[rescue] VirtualBox anecdotes - was Re: A wee bit off-topic

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Jun 21 22:57:38 CDT 2015


  You know, I have a word for people like you.  Several, actually. ;)

               -Dave

On 06/21/2015 10:23 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Just having some fun being contrarian, so I guess 'yes'... ;^)
> 
> Lionel
> 
>> On Jun 21, 2015, at 5:43 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/21/2015 06:30 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> Reminds me of the New stork Socialite that was amazed to hear Nixon was
>>> elected President, since no one she knew voted for him. [0]
>>>
>>> As you drive past high-rise office buildings, there are thousands upon
>>> thousands of windows users inside. As you look at a map of the world, the
> most
>>> populous countries (China, Russia, India, USA) are majority Windows users.
>>> Every electronics store you pass sells Windows PCs by the pallet each
> week,
>>> and occasionally some macs.
>>>
>>> That your selective sample excludes windows users is far from surprising.
> ;^)
>>>
>>> I seriously doubt MS 'bought' the survey results, if only because I rarely
>>> have heard them tout market share as a selling point. Could they buy
> survey
>>> results? Sure, but to what end?
>>>
>>> I am pretty confident there are more pirated copies of Windows XP than
> desktop
>>> users of Linux (any flavor)...
>>
>>  Are we in a trolling mood today, perhaps?
>>
>>            -Dave
>>
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>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>> New Kensington, PA
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