From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 22 11:56:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16461 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:56:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16401 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:56:48 GMT (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-191.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.191]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA71676; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:56:31 GMT Message-ID: <353E3D42.F9EF88EC@ibm.net> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:56:02 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Woody Carey CC: Don Wilde , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Freeware] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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