From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 26 9:47:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49D5914E60 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:47:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.155]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAC5EF0; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:45:20 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01452; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:30:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:30:45 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU Cc: "'Seth'" , "'freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <19990726183045.G1384@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Radu-Cristian FOTESCU on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 10:50:24AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * 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 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