Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:47:47 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stolen BSD code found in Linux kernel Message-ID: <20020918144747.J4623@papagena.rockefeller.edu> In-Reply-To: <200209181755.g8IHtW116519@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>
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Dave Hayes wrote: > >> >> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html > >> >> > >> >> That says it all, to me. [...] > These statistics aren't wildly inaccurate, just inaccurate. There's > some information there. There's a relationship there. That does not "say it all." I'm willing to believe the statistics are totally accurate, in the sense that those particular machines do indeed have those particular uptimes. The point is, it would be moronic to base any sort of decision on those statistics, given (a) the information they leave out (as their own disclaimer points out), (b) the systems they can't handle at all (again, as their own disclaimer points out) (c) the fact that the sysadmins involved apparently never upgrade their software -- many of those machines seem to be running antique versions of Apache with known security holes. (Possibly they've patched the holes without upgrading. Then again, possibly not.) There are lots of very good reasons to advocate BSD. This uptime list isn't one. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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