Linked by David Adams on Tue 7th Oct 2008 15:46 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems An EE Times straw poll of embedded device makers in Europe found that while last year 50% said they planned to use Linux, that number had dropped to 33%. 26% said they planned to use a commercial OS, up from 15% a year ago.
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by Soulbender on Tue 7th Oct 2008 16:32 UTC
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Without knowing how big the sample was and how the questions was asked any statistic is rather useless.
It is very easy to bias a result any way you want by carefully selecting your sample and and take care how you design your questions.