seems like a ridiculous waste of time for no benefit [LWN.net]

seems like a ridiculous waste of time for no benefit

Posted Apr 13, 2006 23:25 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
In reply to: seems like a ridiculous waste of time for no benefit by b7j0c
Parent article: Open Source Parking

Well, it would be nice to persuade Netcraft to discard visibly parked domains from the figures. But until they do, their data supports a fib that Microsoft tells to managers. That fib is important enough to MS that they pay domain registrars like GoDaddy to shift parked domains and make press releases about it. And why wouldn't you want to rain on Microsoft's parade, given that it doesn't cost us anything and might even make some money for Free Software?

Thanks

Bruce

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Define "fib"

Posted Apr 14, 2006 0:18 UTC (Fri) by hazelsct (guest, #3659) [Link] (1 responses)

But then weren't the old inflated Apache numbers a "fib"?

Define "fib"

Posted Apr 14, 2006 4:01 UTC (Fri) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link]

The former Apache users had a technical reason for their selection of Apache. They switched to IIS / Microsoft Server 2003 because, IMO, Microsoft paid them to do so. Certainly GoDaddy would not make a press release about a minor server switch without some sort of incentive.

So, I see a reason to name one an honest switch and another one a fraud. Notice that I am currently using Lighthttpd, not Apache, for technical reasons. I didn't give in to a temptation to change the server ID to Apache.

Bruce