Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:34:19 +0300 From: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <rfotescu@idsrom.com> To: 'Seth' <seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> Cc: "'freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C154069@id-bucharest.idsrom.com>
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> If you're not willing to do a bit of legwork on the rare > occasion you need > to install an app for which there is no port, I'm not sure > FreeBSD is for > you (as someone else pointed out). I don't like saying that, since it > smacks of "my[our] way or the highway", but the Project has > other, more > pressing concerns than these issues which can be resolved with minimal > effort in the ports collection or via a search engine. This is quite a marketing issue, but you don't seem to see the point. This is one of the things [among many other reasons] that made Linux what it is today [I mean, "popular", and I won't say anything on other issues]. FreeBSD's way of making things "centralised" is principially good -- as FreeBSD will _hopefully_ always have only *one* official distribution] but in the meantime it's lack of supporting "openness" in orther way than by a centralised point, isn't good, IMHO. It's not always the better who win -- see bill gates for that. And many, many great ideas, including some operating systems [but not only that, just imagine what Amiga could do], dissapeared due to a wrong marketing policy! People who love FreeBSD will always love it. Independent consultants aware of both Linux and FreeBSD will probably recommend FreeBSD to more or less that 50% of people wanting free unices, depending of what their customers want to do. But just quality by itself just does not sell any more there days. I'm trying to adapt to FreeBSD addicts philosophy 'cause I'm not satisfied with the way Linux evolves. But I'm coming from Linux, and I develop for Win32 [hey! I have to live, ok?], so it _might_ be that I see things somewhat differently. Maybe you should _try_ to see things from an "outsider" point of view and see which are the weak points of FreeBSD propaganda. Good luck! Radu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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