Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:31:42 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Ben" <ben@cahostnet.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) Message-ID: <000701c0ab87$44517e60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <02c401c0ab03$fd58ca00$6102a00a@nhqadmin17>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ben > What are the industry >standards? Ben, this may sound like a nasty vicious statement but it's the truth - your making the _classic_ and I mean _classic_ mistake that all of those new to the the computer industry make. Simply put - there ARE NO standards. At least, not in the way that you WANT them to be. The computer industry is NOT like it was 20 years ago, it is 1000 times vaster. I can remember when I was 15, and it was actually possible at that time to "know everything worth knowing" at least in the PC desktop arena (although we didn't call them PC's then) That is why the userbase at that time was so adamantly for standardization on a single platform and software OS - because we all felt that the market was still graspable, and we wanted the standardization to keep it graspable. Today, however, your fooling yourself if you believe for a second that the computer industry is a homogenious collection of hardware and software. If you learn nothing else, know now that even if you spent every waking second of your life simply learning new things in the computer industry, you could never hope in your lifetime to possess more than a small fraction of all the computer knowledge worth knowing. In fact, by the day that you die the sum total amount of things to know about in the computer industry will have been multiplied by 100. You will go to your grave knowing a smaller percentage of things in the computer industry than you know today, even if you die the worlds greatest software developer It frankly makes absolutely no difference WHAT platform that you choose - you could pick FreeBSD and spend your life on it, or Linux and spend your life on it, or Solaris and spend your life on it, and AS LONG AS YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING you will be very employable for the rest of your life. "Industry standard" today is nothing more than a meaningless marketing term used by salespeople to try to convince the weak-minded to abandon a current solution and switch to a new one. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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