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Re: What does 95th %tile mean?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Apr 23 15:13:00 2001

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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:58:35 EDT, woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)  said:
> Now if I could do frame relay over Ethernet with the simple addition of
> some freely (or nearly so) available software that would work in Joe
> Random's BSD or Linux box, then I'd be in Nirvana from a pricing and

As the RIAA and similar groups are discovering, the only thing that
keeps that Nirvana functioning is the anti-circumvention clause of the
DMCA.

Also, remember that most Joe Randoms aren't BSD or Linux, and that
many Joe Randoms (myself included) would object *strenuously* if an ISP
said "you must install/run *this* software".  That's what got Microsoft
in trouble, you remember?

-- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Operating Systems Analyst
				Virginia Tech


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