Re: 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award

Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com ("scott.marlowe") wrote:
> On 12 Jan 2004, Robert Treat wrote:
>> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:56, Sai Hertz And Control Systems wrote:
>> > >>That assumes that the "LinuxQuestions Members Choice Award" is
>> > >>something that is indicative of the rate of adoption in general --
>> > >>which I am highly sceptical of.
>> > >>
>> > We may remain sceptical and make our selfs feel better but it is true
>> > that to some extent linux belivers are prefering MySQL or FirebirdSql
>> >
>> > Now please tell me how strong is your scepticism.
>> >
>> BTW, IIRC we won that award last year.
>
> That just means we were better at stuffing the ballot last year :-)

That's probably the _exact_ truth.

"Members Choice Awards" are much the same as "Readers Choice Awards"
are much the same as "Voting for All Star Teams" and it all amounts to
people stuffing ballot boxes in favor of their local 'team.'

Of course, when it's baseball fans trying to get their favorite
players onto an "all star" team, you can at least be reasonably
certain that those getting voted for were the best players on the
local team, and accordingly likely rank well in the league.
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