Re: bsdstats.org
Luc Desfosses <[email protected]>
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Herb Peyerl wrote: > > 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. I'm not proud to say this, but a few month ago, i have really increased the count of NetBSD... I'm not proud, really. Just to say, bsdstat is not reliable, don't trust it... In less than one hours, everybody can send different CPU arch, different version, etc... If me, with my technical limit can do this, everybody can cheat...!