From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu May 20 16:50:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BAB514E6C for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 16:50:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA15214; Fri, 21 May 1999 09:20:15 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA13775; Fri, 21 May 1999 09:20:14 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 09:20:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Donald Wilde Cc: FreeBSD advocacy list Subject: Re: linux.com misconceptions Message-ID: <19990521092014.R89091@freebie.lemis.com> References: <99051916483400.07598@thanatos.conio.net> <37432551.6808FC52@thuntek.net> <19990520092257.M89091@freebie.lemis.com> <37441A7F.68BD9EF2@thuntek.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37441A7F.68BD9EF2@thuntek.net>; from Donald Wilde on Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:21:51AM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 20 May 1999 at 8:21:51 -0600, Donald Wilde wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> > >> Don, I think you're the guy to write them a calm, friendly letter >> explaining the inaccuracies, in particular referring to the Gardener >> Group report. You should also remind them of BSD/OS and OpenBSD as >> well. >> > Looks like the desired result has already been accomplished, although > perhaps more bluntly than I would have asked for it. Agreed. I didn't see the original, but it sounds as if it could have been more tactful. As you see, the other side was more than reasonable. > It's hard to use the GG report, since it's been officially pulled > from the web, and they would not allow me to re-post it. I didn't think they would. But you're still allowed to quote it: "Gardner group report finds FreeBSD has 40% higher throughput than Linux" must be completely legal. > Thanks for the VOC, though! You're welcome. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message