SPEC CPU2006 announced

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Vorbr=FCggen?=]

As I noted elsethread, that irritation - in that SPEC can not and will not

The FSF copyright restrictions do not apply to freely downloaded software?

It is not only copyright as such. For instance, CFP 2000 contained the
facial images of about a hundred people. Other benchmark components perhaps
contained other data that need additional legal protection.

This legal argument is bogus. More likely, SPEC doesn't want to be
troubled by a host of tech support questions.

As I said above, the need to enforce the run rules require a contract with
the user. Everything else already follows from that.

All I know is, there was a time when I was a starving student,
developing some of the ideas that I contributed to P6, and hence to
the computers that most of you run on, where 200$US, inflation
adjusted, was a significant barrier. Heck, man, I was eating dogfood
when I wanted a taste of meat, buying moldy cucumbers and cutting out
the bad spots to afford "fresh" vegetables.

I think that says more about the state of US society than anything else.
What if you needed to buy - gasp! - a book to continue your studies?

Moreover, I am not so certain that I may not end up that way again.

_That_ certainly says a lot about the state of US society.

Jan

 

[Eugene Miya]

Why would you killfile Andy or Eugene? IMO , they are very smart, and clever
individuals...

Thank you, very flattering, but I think if I were a "very smart"
individual I would not be here, and I have would guys reading Usenet
(and other sources) for me, and I likely would be off doing other things.
Most of the really really smart guys I know have not just 1 but
sometimes 2 or more secretaries (the people who hold the real power).
I will satisified being merely smart enough, but sometimes that's not
enough.

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