Simple, that's right about when newbi3 showed up here and started posting all his linux lies, just as he tried on this thread. For some reason, he loves to spread lies about linux, and put down Microsoft and others who compete with it. Too bad for him, I never let him get away with it. You'd think after a while he'd quit trying, but some people are just habitual.
The conversation was not the OS on systems sold the conversation you brought in meaningless statistics which had nothing to do with the covnersation. Depsite the fact I made a guess and called it as much my answer to a question was still correct using your numbers.
Your failure to follow the conversation and understand some basic concepts does not mean people were lying..
Well, for those interested, here are some interesting statistics...
I went to the page posted by Flaming Death, and saved it to disk and deleted everything after the Brass Buzzard's devolution to trolldom. Then I ran the following command:
grep "slave" GE-post.html | grep -v page | \ grep -v "News/Activism" | sort | uniq -c
The result is as follows:
1 Lakers win!!!
10 Intercepted Communications Give Credence to FBI Warning
1 Microsoft under Bio Attack!
1 Saudi Prince: Rudy Got The Wrong Message
5 Sony Pictures employee hospitalized after touching white powder
1 Bin Laden's son says West will never capture him
1 BREAKING: SAUDIS MAY ASKING U.S. MILITARY TO LEAVE
1 President Bush welcomed by Patriots while protesters covered on evening news!
1 Musharraf Urges End to Afghan Bombing by Ramadan
3 Please help - need AWSOME Chili Recipe - Vanity Post
1 Letters Prove Saddam Behind Attack
1 REBEL TROOPS ROUT TALIBAN AND SMASH INTO KEY CITY
1 Franklin Graham Calls Islam Evil Religion
3 [[[ Excite@Home HAS gone dark !!! ]]] -- CableModem customers stranded!
1 Fox News: Racicot to be RNC Chairman
1 Pakistan Ended Aid to Taliban Only Hesitantly
1 BCS pulls a Palm Beach, picks Nebraska and Gore
1 More Than 1 Million Xbox Systems Shipped to North American Retailers In Just Three Weeks
6 The great Koran con trick
1 A Nebraska Fan's Perspective of the BCS
4 Oracle's 'Unbreakable' boast attracting hackers
1 Dead Man Walker
1 COMMANDOS HOT ON OSAMA'S TAIL
1 U.S. Planes Pound Al Qaeda Troops on Mountain Ridge (Update2)
1 Dozens of Al Qaeda Surrender Near Where Afghan Commander Claims to Have Found Bin Laden's Cave
6 Aghan Commanders: We've Got Bin Laden Cornered
2 Osama's Voice Heard in Tora Bora Radio Intercept
1 Pakistan Blamed By India For Raid On Parliament
2 Forces declare victory at Tora Bora: But bin Laden not in area,
1 Bill Clinton: We will never let Palestinians get rid of Israel ( PROJECTILE WITH BIG CHUNKS ALERT)
1 *POSTER 2* Sammy bin Lawden sings your favorite tunes in this made for TV special! (360k)
1 FreeperDad Prayer Request
2 Shoe bomb linked to Bin Laden
1 Katherine Harris needled in effigy at last year's King Mango Strut in Miami [my title]
1 SPURRIER RESIGNS AS HEAD COACH OF FLORIDA!
2 Plane Crashes Into Tampa Building
1 Stoops Stays with Oklahoma!!!
4 Daytona 500: W. Burton Wins!!! [E. Sadler 2nd, G. Bodine 3rd]
1 Is Linux Your Next OS? (John Dvorak)
1 U.S. repatriating Pakistani detainees
1 Sun Files Suit Against Microsoft Alleging Damages in Java Fight
1 Are guys intimidated by powerful women?
1 Falwell Calls For "Conservative Revolution"
2 Calpers Says It Will Vote Its Shares Against Proposed H-P/Compaq Deal
1 Vote for Favorite Conservative and Least favorite DemocRAT
2 Pakistan moves troops, prepares for airstrikes
1 CAN WE KNOCK OUT INDIA'S AND PAKISTAN'S NUKES?
2 Pakistan's Musharraf Says Nuclear Option Insane
1 Bush's Record Calls into Question His Conservative Label
1 BIN LADEN'S JULY 4 TERROR BROADCAST
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That pretty much looks like a normal Freeperr posting history. A scattering of posts on a variety of subjects.
GE's last post as a normal Freeper was on 06/23/2002. Almost a year passes before another post is made 05/28/2003, and GE has been a Johnny-one-note troll ever since.
Now let's take a look at her posting history after some witch transformed her into a really lame troll:
1 BIN LADEN'S JULY 4 TERROR BROADCAST ^
1 Novell Puts the Lie to SCO's Linux Attack ^
13 UPDATE - Microsoft loses city of Munich deal to Linux ^
3 SCO says it will show code in Linux dispute ^
1 Microsoft says Linux-based software a growing threat ^
1 Linux Leader Torvalds To Work Full-Time On Kernel Development ^
22 What SCO Wants, SCO Gets - (Linux Assault)
35 Why SCO decided to take IBM to court ^
4 US told Japan that NKorea has several nuclear warheads: report ^
Since that time, a lot has happened in the world, but you'd never know it if you lived in GE's tiny universe of anti-open source trolldom.
You mean lies like all Chinese supercomputers run Red Flag Linux?
Stats and marketshare can be bantered around all day and nobody is likely to be caught in a real lie about them since interpretations and sources differ, but your unqualified, absolute lie above is pretty inescapable.