Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:53:19 -0800 (PST) From: Rob Garrett <chmod@rock.ghis.net> To: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strong warning! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903312346480.78606-100000@rock.ghis.net> In-Reply-To: <37023569.C052B6B7@thuntek.net>
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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Donald Wilde wrote: > > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/columns/0,4351,396531,00.html > > Down near the bottom, a blurb about Yahoo using FreeBSD. > > > Ryan Snedegar You like cats too? > > ryan@positronic.net Let's trade recipes! > > In this article Ryan pointed me to, there's also a mention of a clause > in the MS license agreement that prohibits publishing of benchmarks on > MS products. We are too small to be jackal bait now, so probably nothing > will come of it, but I would _strongly_suggest_ that any benchmarking > initiatives be geared towards "here's how you do a live side-by-side" > rather than doing it and publishing the results. We will be assisting > UG's in setting up such shootouts and doing them at trade shows, but > please do not set yourself up for personal liability by publishing the > results. > > -- > Don Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" > Wilde Media > 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 > Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net > Don, In regards to your comment about taking me away from the PDP project, I have time enough for both the web site and the documentaion. and as to benchmarks against microsoft software it never has been my intention of comparing freebsd with nt or 98 my tests are soley against linux, as to the shootout stuff, the benchmarks that exist now are extremely lacking in some areas leading to inconclusive results, Thats somthing i hope to rectify over the next week. and once again if I didn't feel that i had enough time to give to the advocy web stuff I wouldn't of volunteered, this is somthing that t I really want to be invlolved in Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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