Hi Marc,
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:30:08 -0300 (ADT) you wrote: > Okay, there has been alot of discussion on this in the other thread, > some of it tangent'd to the original, so, I'm starting off a new > thread as a sort of summary ... Great idea, but should be introduced with care... > I've been doing some thinking on it this afternoon, and think I've > figured out about the simpliest way of doing it ... it still doesn't > deal with "fakers" and such, but, IMHO, I don't think that that is a > *huge* problem that needs to be addressed ... some might do it for a > lark, but, overall, it just sounds like something that is "more worth > then its worth", so over time, it should eventually balance out ... ...taking into consideration *why* do we want to do the stats. *If* we plan (and this is one of the goals of the project) to have those stats as a serious argument for a Big Business then we *must* prove that those numbers are not faked. Or even more strict: that those numbers can't (or even very, no VERY hard to) be faked. It's useless (as a serious argument) if it can be faked: imagine that a virus (warm or else) is written to fake it. [Can't comment on the rest right now, thus skipped] WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
