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Subject: Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows
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Odhiambo Washington wrote:

> No one in their right senses would spend time benchmarking  FreeBSD (or any
> Unix variant) against Windows (oh, which version?). It's a waste of time.
> Let those who use Windows use it and those who like living in a world where
> they are allowed to use their brains use Unix.

Ahem..

Just for the record, I believe that "those who like living in a world
where they are allowed to use their brain" use whatever OS gets the job
done for a particular task or task set.

Those who are allowed to use their brain, but don't, will often use a
pair of pliers as a hammer, because no matter what, their belief is that
the pliers are the best tool...even when it takes 10 times longer to
bend those pliers in ways that another tool will work with no changes
necessary.

Steve