From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 15 11:08:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA27735 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:08:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA27713; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA07701; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 20:08:35 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id UAA14027; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 20:07:55 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.Alpha.5/keltia-uucp-2.8) id UAA03895; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 20:07:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199607151807.UAA03895@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: I ask you to respond to Linus To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 20:07:36 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, winter@jurai.net, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199607151316.IAA06445@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Jul 15, 96 08:16:19 am" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#2232 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that John S. Dyson said: > The biggest problem is that the benchmark suite that is cited as being > able to definitively show the performance difference is inadequate for > the task. John, I can understand your anger but, really, it is not worth it. You should know that asking for a public apology won't probably be answered but realize that WHATEVER THE OUTCOME of the flame war, everyone will be losing (by eveyone I mean the entire free UNIXes community) credit in the eyes of potential "converts". Most people won't care about how many usec each system would take to do anything, they'll just see that the two community are just flinging bad words at each others. NO FLAME WAR is worth that, John. Yes, I know Linus is young. Yes, I know he has a big head (I've met and discussed with him so I hope nobody will say that I'm too biaised), probably too big. So what ? I just hope things are not too far... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #15: Sun Jul 14 17:33:54 MET DST 1996