Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 3 Aug 1999 20:12:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mike Hoskins <mike@snafu.adept.org>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Selfstyled arrogance?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908032008440.13604-100000@snafu.adept.org>
In-Reply-To: <37A68DFA.156FDFD3@softweyr.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Wes Peters wrote:

> Or it might do neither, and continue to have a long and fruitful life.  Why
> is it that so many FreeBSD users define "success" as "replacing XXX" where
> XXX is variously Windows NT, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS, and even VxWorks

I agree.  We should focus upon making FreeBSD a more secure, robust,
reliable OS...  not merely upon 'world domination'.  Religious fanatics so
obsessed with making their OS the 'only' OS is one of the problems with
M$.  We don't need to mimic that behavior.

I'm not saying we don't need to advocate FreeBSD - I merely believe that
we should not become so obsessed with getting 'more users' that we loose
sight of the development philosophy/goals that has/have made the FreeBSD
Project what it is today.

							--Mike



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.10.9908032008440.13604-100000>