Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: performance & you-know-who | Date | Sat, 08 May 1999 22:33:35 -0400 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <199905090138.VAA09394@alcove.wittsend.com>, "Michael H. Warfield" w rites: +----- | Albert D. Cahalan enscribed thusly: | | > There is a _new_ "Open Benchmark Invitation" on Mindcraft's site. | > http://www.mindcraft.com/openbenchmark.html | | > This one is hard to refuse. PC Week has offered to supply the lab | > and settle disputes over the rules. We got NT clients added, along | > with an unlimited-patch test run and some random minor junk. +--->8
*WOW*.
It occurs to me that there was no such uproar, and Mindcraft made no such serious attempts to rectify things, when they pulled the same butchery against NetWare. That the disbelief and distrust was nearly universal in the media, and that Mindcraft now apparently finds it necessary to bend over backwards to restore their credibility, says a lot about the credibility of the Linux, Apache, and Samba communities.
And it says even more. The benchmark has been forced *open*, or at least far more open than is normal. Proprietary *thinking* has been dealt a major blow here. So even if NT ends up still outperforming Linux in the new benchmark, we've accomplished something even more important: just by being what we are --- open --- we've driven a stake through one of the major supports of the proprietary mindset.
"World domination" may be a joke, but it's increasingly looking like a joke with more than a kernel of truth. (And I really have to wonder what Gates & co. are thinking now that, while they might win this battle, it's at the price of a major setback in the war. When FUD fails this spectacularly, what do they have left?)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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