From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 7 11:40:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E9337B404 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D6A43F75 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:40:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HCZ00BHAL5WST@thor.acuson.com> for advocacy@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:39:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:30:17 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-117.acuson.com ([157.226.46.117]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id GNSX25X9; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:31:44 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:39:35 -0700 From: Johnson David In-reply-to: <20030407153600.GA51613@netpublishing.com> To: "Gregory A. Gilliss" , advocacy@freebsd.org Message-id: <200304071139.35984.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030407153600.GA51613@netpublishing.com> Subject: Re: Look what a mess I made (was Brilliant and very useful...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 18:40:02 -0000 On Monday 07 April 2003 08:36 am, Gregory A. Gilliss wrote: > The point - the reason that I thought that this article has value - > is that the FreeBSD community doesn't - dare I say it - pander - to > the user community. "pander: someone who caters to or exploits the weaknesses of others" I hope you can see my point. There is a line between advocacy and pandering that we should not cross. > Good tools require no instruction. That was the point, not the rest > of this didactic cruft. My automobile is a most excellent tool. But it required a lot of instruction. > Who among you ever read the instructions for a phone (not a cordless > multi- frequency-answering-machine-GPS-breathalyzer phone, but the > unbox-it-plug- it-in-listen-for-dial-tone phone? Or a hammer? When FreeBSD has the lack of functionality of a hammer, then it won't need instructions. Think about it. A hammer only does one thing (two if you have a clawhammer). FreeBSD does a million things in a million different ways. Of course it needs instructions! Cheers, David