Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 03:34:13 -0800 From: Rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Subject: Re: GPL vs BSD Licence Message-ID: <418770B5.4010909@pythonemproject.com> In-Reply-To: <1099388317.4187559d1d4fe@imp2-q.free.fr> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEJJEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1099388317.4187559d1d4fe@imp2-q.free.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >Quoting Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>: > > >>>It's like saying most people who listen to Schoenberg come from the >>>rock world rather than the classical music world, because there are so >>>many more rock music listeners than classical music listeners. >>> >>> >>> >>Well, perhaps it is, but as a matter of fact, most classical music >>listeners DO come from rock music listeners, didn't you know that? >> >> > >I doubt anyone jumps from Metallica to Schoenberg. They may go to other, >more accessible forms of classical music and gravitate from there. >Similarly I doubt many people jump from Windows to FreeBSD, without >some exposure to other forms of Unix (not necessarily Linux but these days >that's the most likely candidate, and I'm not ignoring Mac OS X: most >Mac OS X users I've met were either already familiar with Unix or hadn't >bothered to learn anything about its Unix roots.) > >(That's an analogy, not exact. I don't like Schoenberg and twelve-tone music >myself, though I do like a lot of other "modern" 20th-century composers.) > >I think there's absolutely no question, except among hardened FreeBSD >oldtimers who haven't seen the real world in years, that Linux offers a >much lower entry barrier to users who've forgotten what a command line is, >even in its crude MSDOS form. > >Rahul >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > Thought you all might enjoy this (or get pissed). Mozilla has started marking this thread as SPAM. LOL. I had nothing to do with it. Rob.
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