Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 17:32:18 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu> 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: Re: The real issue... Message-ID: <8189.849663138@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Dec 1996 19:40:00 EST." <199612040040.TAA19311@jenolan.caipgeneral>
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> 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. Which only clearly illustrates that David *still* isn't listening to anything I've been saying, he's only nodding his head waiting for me to finish so that he can get his next diatribe in. There is only one way you guys could even being to "worry us" and that's if you created a large, publically visible FTP or WWW server which rivaled one of ours. That's it. You can shout about your numbers until the cows come home, but until you get a machine with a 100Mbit connection to the Internet and over a thousand users on it which we can connect to and see it in action for ourselves, we'll still feel quite secure that we're able to provide the best heavy-duty server solution, and that's our game. This is not dirty pool, this is you deciding that you're unable to play soccer in our arena and so running off to kick the ball in a corner by yourself, screaming "goal!" everytime you manage to get the ball past your imaginary goalkeeper. Grow up, OK? Jordan
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