Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:30:45 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <rfotescu@idsrom.com> Cc: "'Seth'" <seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org>, "'freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <19990726183045.G1384@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C154055@id-bucharest.idsrom.com>; from Radu-Cristian FOTESCU on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 10:50:24AM %2B0300 References: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C154055@id-bucharest.idsrom.com>
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* Radu-Cristian FOTESCU (rfotescu@idsrom.com) [990726 13:15]: > > Because the application list is already on any modern FreeBSD system if > > you've installed the ports collection. Ports is one of the FreeBSD's > > Yeah, but this is NOT what I meant! Imagine that thousands of people are > making, for their own use or not, thousands of free [well, GPLed] Linux > apps. Why should I use Yahoo! to find that it *might* be on that world some > app which could help me? Instead... I can go to linuxapps.com, take the > source from there, and compile it either for Linux, either for FreeBSD! > However... :-( Simple btw ;) You don't like the fact that freebsdapps.com/org/net doesn't exist? Register it and have fun! Nobody's forcing you to not do it, nobody's forcing you to do it. Your choice. That's the BSD way... That's how freebsddiary.com and freebsdzine.org came into being in the first place IIRC. [right Jim? right Dan?] -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Cum angelis et pueris, fideles inveniamur. Quis est iste Rex gloriae...? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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