Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 15:35:08 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Comparing FreeBSD and other OSs Message-ID: <15355.826241708@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Mar 1996 08:51:36 PST." <Pine.AUX.3.91.960307083959.3232C-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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> our own product in the other pages. This page would also have an > emphasized message saying something like: "We want FreeBSD to be the > best operating system it can be. If you decide to choose one of the > other OS's (especially Linux) please fill out this brief survey to show > why you made your decision." Then we can have a _brief_ fill-out form, > which I can make a CGI to tabulate and automagically post the results. That's a neat idea. I like it! > Certainly that is the primary focus of the Web page layout I'm > designing. I plan to have lots of cold, hard facts, but those would be > available as hypertext links. So where a primary page would say "FreeBSD > outperforms Linux by 3 to 1 for an Internet server!" there would be a link > to the full study. This way, people can skim through literally dozens of > FreeBSD advantages, and if they are particularly interested or skeptical > about one, they can click on the actual survey, and so our ethical > integrity is maintained. By the way, it would be nice if we had the Excellent. Sounds like you've struck the right balance here. > funding to perform some USABILITY studies head-to-head with Linux, > because I really believe our product is better "out of the box" than most I doubt that we'll get any funding for stuff like this, but you should be able to get a number of people to volunteer time and systems for this if you ask them nicely.. :-) Jordan
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