From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 20 12:21:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avarice.riverstyx.net (hq-port-97.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E119514EA7 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:21:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from avarice (unknown@avarice [207.23.37.97]) by avarice.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA27215; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:19:57 -0700 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:19:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: poor ethernet performance? In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990720125124.043f7990@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > > I don't believe that this is true. I think the survey you are talking about > >was designed by a company that's methodical enough to understand the > >limitations of surveys. > I think that your arguments were designed to be defeatist. Do not ask for > support for FreeBSD, and you are sure not to get it. Be a prick and be ignored. A Linux survey is not your soapbox, just send them an e-mail (aka. use the proper channels). > > If you create a 'Linux tools' survey, and promote it to people who develop > >under Linux, you can expect to learn the preferences of Linux developers. If > >someone goes out and solicits a particular subgroup of Linux developers > >heavily to fill out your survey, you know that you just get nvalid results. > Have you considered Linux advocacy? It sounds as if you'd make a very good > Linux booster. You're clearly not interested in seeing native software or tools > developed for FreeBSD. Linux has enough people running around damaging its reputation as it is. Did you see those e-mails that Mindcraft got? Sabotaging someone's survey is immature and irritating. Don't you think a few e-mails in the support mailbox asking for support for a certain platform would be more likely to get you what you want? --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message