From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 20 14:27:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10847 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:27:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10819; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:27:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmb) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199803202227.OAA10819@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: after the release ... In-Reply-To: from "Matthew D. Fuller" at "Mar 20, 98 03:18:44 pm" To: fullermd@futuresouth.com Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:27:22 -0800 (PST) Cc: tsprad@set.spradley.tmi.net, software@kew.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > The point is, people don't WANT to learn, even if it's really pretty > simple. They have this idea that 'UNIX is hard', and they've overcome it > enough to be running FreeBSD, and now you want them to do something with > 'compiling'??? PANIC!!! > People are comforted by the fact that they believe that someone else knows > what they're doing, and will do the hard stuff for them. How do you think > Microsoft made all their money? You just mention 'source code', and most > people hear 'bleh bleh devil spawn technobabble', and it's suddenly 'too > much work'. BRAVO! folks, just ctm or sup and type make world. easier? how could be make it any easier? well i guess we could come to your site and do it for you. sounds like a billable activity ;P jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message