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The Great Web Crawl? (Naaah, sounds slow.) The Web Shooter Shootout?
Web Free-For-All?

--Brett

At 07:40 AM 4/25/98 -0700, Don Wilde wrote:
 
>As many of you know, we are going to mount a FreeBSD+Apache effort to
>challenge the SPECweb96 (http://www.specbench.org) benchmark on June
>26-28. We're going to hold it in Berkeley and make it a real media
>circus. History of BSD, the Freeware Movement, etc., etc., etc. We'll
>get national exposure for it, and we'll create some of our own. What the
>event will be is basically a publicly staged run of the benchmark, with
>big-screen videos and live 'net feeds and the whole 9 yds. We'll have a
>10' high "thermometer" that will visibly show the results in lights as
>our numbers climb.
>
>The goal of the project is exposure and positive press for FreeBSD in
>particular and Apache and other freeware in general. It is not going to
>be a 'bash Microsoft' or 'bash Linux' or anything else; we'll take the
>high road. The press will make comparisons and grind their own axen for
>us. Our goal is to legitimize FreeBSD in the public's mind, and they're
>ripe for it because they hate MS and they've heard about this Linux
>thingie and now it's time to show them where the real true power of
>freeware lies.
>
>I need a catchy name for the event. SuperPowerFreewareFest doesn't quite
>do it...
>
>--> Don
>
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