From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 22 15:36:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA05736 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:36:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA05731 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:36:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA22372; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:19:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701222319.QAA22372@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:19:58 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199701220514.WAA23918@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Jan 21, 97 10:14:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Jordan wrote: > > > I think you're working from a misperception. The core team doesn't > > > spend its time sitting around rubbing its collective hands together > > > and going "Mooohahahaha! POWER!" so it's not likely to consider this > > > in terms of power loss so much as it is in terms of how much workload > > > is generated. [ ... ] Nate writes: > Umm, I think you are working from a misperception. The core team > doesn't have anything to do with determining the 'workload' of FreeBSD. Jordan is talking in terms of workload generated. If you don't like the assumptive framework, talk to Jorden. I'm just responding in the framework that has been established. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.