Re: Survey at Scripting News

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

I think there's a severe case of sample bias here. Bssed on my
experience in consulting, it seems to me that "it was already 
installed on the computer" is #1 among the masses of average users.

--Brett Glass

At 07:20 AM 4/7/98 -0400, Beech Family wrote:
>                 low price (28)
>
>                 high price (2)
>
>                 free source code available (33)
>
>                 runs on a specific operating system/platform (40)
>
>                 better performance relative to other similar products (63)
>
>                 features you can't get anywhere else (231)
>
>                 quality of support (10)
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>                 size of the company selling the product (1)
>
>                 lots of other people use the product successfully (31)
>
>                 it comes from a company or individual
>                 who you want to support          (18)
>
>                 easy to learn, use or install (58)
>
>                 it was already installed on the computer (1)
>
>                 I have no say in what software I use, it's someone
>                 else's choice (1)
>
>                 elegance, depth, inherent power (83)
>
>
>
>       Dave Winer
>       4/4/98
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>This survey is still active [I checked..after I voted and re-posted the
>form data, my vote appeared in the totals]
>
>Right now I don't see a lot of votes for either
>
>                 free source code available (33) [where's the
>                 Linux/freeware/opensource guys?!]
>
>                 runs on a specific operating system/platform (40) [where's
>the
>                 Mac community?]
>
>
>So if you're interested in convincing Dave Winer and his readers that
>there's more to life than he can see from his little Windows ..oops..bite
>my tongue..I mean window ;-)
>
>[I mean you may be asking "Who cares what this Bozo and his pals think?]
>
>.you may care to cast your vote..
>
>Oh..and tell your Mac addicted and/or Linux loving buddies to vote too.
>
>Heather
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>Heather Wimberly Beech,A.I.A.
>Beech Family Website
>http://www.lava.net/~tobeth
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>tobeth@lava.net
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