Let's say he practices what he preaches (see quote above) and says "You can't tell me not to link it!" and leaves the link up. Joe Developer gets 500,000 hits in one day and goes over his allotted bandwidth by 20GB. At $5 per 10MB over his allotment, he now owes his hosting company a $1000 in overage fees and Joe Developer removes his site and goes bankrupt due to the "fundamental point of the web."
The fairly obvious solution is for 'Joe' to simply remove his page; maybe replace it with a message saying 'please return next month'. Should reduce the number of bytes transfered.
If you dont want people to read your pages, the simple solution is to not put them on the web! Surely that is the point of the web.
That 25% is based on better compilers - the gap disappears when running DU compiled code on alpha linux.
There's nothing to stop Compaq releasing their compilers for alpha linux though, which is a win for them because they can still make money selling good compilers, without all of the R&D involved in writing the entire OS.
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The fairly obvious solution is for 'Joe' to simply remove his page; maybe replace it with a message saying 'please return next month'. Should reduce the number of bytes transfered.
If you dont want people to read your pages, the simple solution is to not put them on the web! Surely that is the point of the web.
That 25% is based on better compilers - the gap disappears when running DU compiled code on alpha linux.
There's nothing to stop Compaq releasing their compilers for alpha linux though, which is a win for them because they can still make money selling good compilers, without all of the R&D involved in writing the entire OS.