how can you have 73 percent vote for one and then 84 percent vote for the other?

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Guest wrote:
how can you have 73 percent vote for one and then 84 percent vote for the other?

It would seem that respondents could name more than one top influencer.

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the fact that the Computing Technology Industry Association even gave Steve Jobs credit amazes me! Afterall most IT people are educated and trained on Microsoft systems. Apple is forgotten in any of the IT Dept.s I've been in. Unix and DOS have been too.

Sweet bleeding christ, will you PLEASE stop?! WE GET THE JOKE. OK? You are copying the Fake Steve Jobs. Ha ha. (Not) very funny!

Now go away and stop pasting your dumb comments and URL on what seems like every frakking site I read.

Has it been that long since the lawsuit when Bill gave the reins over to Ballmer? I don't know, when the head of marketing (no offense Steve O) runs a company, usally the competition surpasses them completely within 15 years.

What does CTIA consider to be "influence"? Innovation, and the ability to shape the industry based on practices? Or by market share, and number of units shipped? I'm having a hard time swallowing how Michael Dell could be placed ahead of Torvalds.

He commoditized the PC.

naughty, naughty, Steve Ballmer. The article is on the top most influential personalities over the past 25 years in the IT industry and says nothing about positive or negative influences. If it only referenced positive accords then your Billy would never have made the mark, the titty-boy he is. And Steve B didn't make it cause he has no influence either way what with his foot engineered in his mouth most of the time. But our Man Steve doesn't need to pump weights to keep sand out of his specs. He's a for-seer who never talks the cant while titty-boy Bill is a profiteer who can't see the future past the dollar. Let's see now... influence, influence, influence. A world without Bill vs a world without Steve. Well, one gave us the iPod and the other the Zune. One gave us six successful regal beasts in a row and the other a not so pleasant view in the mangled world of OS. Oh, and the other guy, that Steve B? Why Bill keeps him round to pontificate cause he's so dorky he makes Bill look slightly less dorky.

And Steve Ballmer; This is a democratic forum. No one has any right to deface your posts (post49). I hope you have informed Mac Observer. Keep commenting.

Cheers,
mhikl

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He commoditized the PC.

I guess that would lend itself towards the other definition of influence, being "number of units shipped." Not really a positive contribution to the industry, if you ask me.