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Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?



On Nov 8, 2007 7:38 PM, John Masters <johnmasters@oxtedonline.net> wrote:
> On 16:45 Thu 08 Nov     , Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> >
> > This is the third poll I've run, of course asking the same question of
> > "what's your favourite FLOSS", and I haven't ever seen a flame war
> > incited by it. In fact I have found it pretty helpful since it tends
> > to reveal various hidden gems. And by the way, popcon states which
> > software is most installed (and does not exclude essential stuff like
> > 'tzdata' which I'm sure many users don't care/know about), and that's
> > a limitation. Doesn't that distinction make it worthy to run this
> > poll?
> >
>
> Firstly I must apologise to any and all I offended with my post. In
> mitigation I plead age, failing memory and a bad day at work. I could
> have sworn that it was only about 3 months ago the last survey was
> posted; just checked the logs and it was last October. Doesn't time fly
> when you get older?
>
> Also at the same time there was a bit of a flame war going on about spam
> and I must have subconsciously associated the two different threads.
>
> BTW I actually submitted to the last survey ;). Also I take your point
> about the difference between popcon and the poll.

I will check it out. Also please re-submit in anything changed. If
not, you lose :-)

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