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> It's not that there's anything to hide

Clauses like these make me think you think there is. Which is perhaps a bigger red flag than the attempted censorship in itself.

> Spreading wrong performance information can hurt a business.

Firstly, I'd suggest you should perhaps focus on trying to educate your users on how to make better performance tests - if they are bad at making benchmarks then they are likely bad at running your server as well.

Secondly, boohoo. Not spreading unflattering but correct performance information might not hurt your business but will hurt your customers.

Lastly, you are curtailing speech which isn't ethical and due to that I'm pretty ambivalent if any hurt visited your business. Imagine if everyone did that about everything.

> complex

> requires expertise

I'm sure every despot anywhere used a variation of your argument, something about economics being complex offshoot of mathematics that requires expertise to handle so you best not share any overly rushed opinions.

> Apache-built binaries

Which people can benchmark to their heart's content and I'd hope the clause would irritate many people into publishing their own benchmarks..




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