Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:56:02 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> To: Woody Carey <wcarey@cs.uoregon.edu> Cc: Don Wilde <don@partsnow.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Freeware] Message-ID: <353E3D42.F9EF88EC@ibm.net> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980422113201.5564B-100000@statix.cs.uoregon.edu>
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Woody Carey wrote: > >From what I understand about benchmarks, most vendors do funky tuning to > beat their competitors on a benchmark that may or may not be indicative of > anything at all. Basically, benchmarking with this sort of nonsense is > agreeing to play a dirty political game and and a pointless, losing > battle. Why don't we not go there, and save ourselves the trouble of > discovering the error of our ways after the fact? > Visibility, in a word. We can beat them if we are smart. What it means, I don't know. That's why I originally proposed a more real-world realistic challenge in a controlled environment, to eliminate this dirtiness. I'm exploring alternatives for promotion, and an open challenge like this (freeware vs. the behemoths) would make the evening news for a whole two weeks. Where else could we get promo like this??? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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