The Mindcraft test is a blatant attempt by MS just to discredit Linux
and most non-Linux users that have even read about it will admit that.
Most people who care do understand MS's way of doing business and do not
consider it ethical.
There are some obvious flaws in the Mindcraft test that very few people
are talking about. That Windows users have pointed out.
- Why is MS benchmarking NT 4.0 anymore? If 2000 is supposed to be
out in the fall. Wouldn't you rather try and push that your new
flagship product is better than Linux.
- The number of computers that this actually applies to? Sure they
may
double our speed on a quad CPU server. But how is it on a single
CPU
Pentium 233 or so.
Truth to be told MS has more to lose by trying to push Linux than it
could ever gain. Especially with the turn around on bug fixes and
performance improvements. There is a patch to 2.2.8 that makes Apache
300% faster already. That would have taken MS about a year to get
fixed.
Something to remember. When the TCP/IP stack debacle happened.
- Linux's fix was available in a day or less.
- The other *NIX's was available in less than 6 months.
- MS's fix wasn't available for something like a year.
That is if I recall correctly. Does anyone remember that incident.
That would probably be a good Ask /. ?.
I think that in some ways we should just ignore the NT 4.0 thing and
concentrate on Linux against Windows 2000. MS has already said that 60%
of apps are not going to run. Of course that is up to the individual
software companies to fix that but the app playing field will be level
for awhile.
Except of course MS's own apps.
In the same category, 2000 is supposed to require a 300MHz cpu with a
minimum of 64M to even run. How many businesses can actually upgrade to
that all at one time. The cost would be phenomenal.
I am not much into the bashing but the whole Mindcraft thing strikes a
nerve.
Jim Ray
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