[FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

[Thomas Charron]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> So, do you think I "give a snot"?  Sorry, I do.

  The answer doesn't scale.  That same 'problem' using a cluster years
ago can now be processed in *minutes* on a Xeon quad processor.  I'm
actually leading a product right now that would have been impractical
to do even 5 years ago, without requiring that kind of setup.  My way
of comparison is, for example, making a 30 second query take 1 second
instead.

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-- Thomas