Re: bsdstats.org

Herb Peyerl <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6-Dec-06, at 1:04 PM, David Wetzel wrote:

> I was thinking about the sense also, but the public (press etc.)  
> would probaly realise that there are quite a
> few NetBSD installations.
> Another thing would possibly the release of download statistics on  
> NetBSD.org.
> We are on fairs, but here is a big marketing weakness.
>
> Otherwise, yes I don't like the idea of installing a counter to  
> tell somebody who I am.

I am of the strong opinion that it is more harmful to report  
incorrect data than to report no data.  Since bsdstats can not be  
correct or even accurately representative, its data can only do harm,  
not good.
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