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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 1996 19:40:00 -0500
From:      "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com
Cc:        lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com, dyson@freebsd.org, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, dennis@etinc.com, kpneal@pobox.com, hackers@freebsd.org, torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi, lm@relay.engr.SGI.COM, iain@sbs.de, sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject:   The real issue...
Message-ID:  <199612040040.TAA19311@jenolan.caipgeneral>
In-Reply-To: <7860.849658577@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)

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   Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 16:16:17 -0800
   From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>

   Can we STOP THIS THREAD NOW PLEASE!

No one has the friggin' balls to say it, but I will and this will be
my last message, you can be sure of that.

The thing the FreeBSD people are worried about, is that if they make
publicly available whatever tools/benchmarks they use to measure the
better performance they get in some way over other systems, they are
afraid that the Linux people will pick it up and fix the problem.  And
then there will be nothing to be said anymore.

Kind of sounds like the ball game commercial UNIX vendors play doesn't
it?  Proprietary pieces of code, under lock and key, and the hoarding
of information to get competitive advantages.  You no longer get the
compliment of being called a pinhead by me for this.  This is dirty
pool.

This is what they are concerned about.

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Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & ////
199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s   ////
ethernet.  Beat that!                     ////
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David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ ><



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