Re: [OS:N:] Quick Survey

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On 30 Sep 2002, Jeremy Hogan wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 08:06, John Adams wrote:
> > At 10:42 AM 9/29/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> > 
> > >Redhat (if some of you have forgotten) sponsored this
> > >mail list
> > 
> > The point is that advocacy needs to be separated from commercial activity.

as someone who has had to do a lot of statistical work I understand the
value of survey's so tend to always respond to a "real" survey as opposed
to marketing or harvesting 

I responded to this survey as it appeared to be a "real" survey

> In the case of OSS companies, we can't fully separate the advocacy from
> commercial activity. Every day we are out there justifying OSS in and of
> itself, just as much, if not more than the merits of our product line.

as someone who runs Red Hat (currently 7.2) commercially in a business and
have some concerns about Red Hat and have no problem with answering this
type of survey, I would have answered a similar survey from Corel,
Caldera, Mandrake etc

this kind of survey is how a product gets better.

> That said, we do intentionally refrain from spamming this list with
> marketing info, in fact our marketing is 99.999% op-in. In this case I

thank goodness I get too much of that as it is

> wanted to know how a certain demographic felt about Red Hat as a brand.
> Not its products, not in an effort to sell anyone anything.

and as users it is a valid method to run a survey, you didn't post it
here, rather you posted a link to the survey (and by the way, I do 508
compliance testing amoung other things and the survey was one of the few
that I have run accross recently that was compliant.)

IMHO only
Bob



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