[OSM-talk] What phone survey results

[SteveC]

On Jan 8, 2011, at 5:18 PM, David Murn wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 12:00 -0800, SteveC wrote:
>> That's kind of interesting. Sold over what time period though?
> 
> The article I posted gave figures (in both volume and $ sales) for
> per-quarter periods, compared with other quarters in 2010 and the
> previous year.
> 
> 
>> "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game..
> 
> I find this a very interesting response when the question asked of you
> was:
> 
> "*I* don't want to know who's using what 'phone; I wanted to know why
> *you* wanted to know."
> 
> Someone fairly and squarely asked the reason why youre surveying users
> on this mailing list, a mailing list for a project that begins with
> 'Open', and your response is to call it an argument with an anonymous
> idiot?

No, I answered it several times, as did others. It was simple curiosity. My reply was to the trolling.

> 
> Wouldnt it be easier (and less personally insulting) to simply give an
> answer to the question everyone has politely asked you, or if youre
> under some commercial-in-confidence agreement, then at least say so?  
> 
> You asked everyone here for their help with your project, then launch
> into a tirade that everyone who enquired for more details about your
> project, is a 'self-righteous sixteen-year-old posessing infinite
> amounts of free time'.
> 
> David
> 
> 

Steve

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