Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:55:51 +0300 From: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <rfotescu@idsrom.com> To: "'freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C154075@id-bucharest.idsrom.com>
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> The reason people are getting mad at you is that you have been told > from the beginning that what linuxapps or whatever does is the > equivalent they *at last* implemented of our Ports, and still > inferior to boot, but you just DON'T F*CKING LISTEN. >=20 This isn't really something which would matter, anyway [ls-color, that = is]. Which means is the mentality [I'd say, stubbornnes] of *YOUR COMMUNITY* = [as to quote you; please read "FreeBSD community"].=20 If FreeBSD is something free, not commercial, nobody with a common = sense will not claim technical support or anything else [though he might get = some very useful support from the community]. However... this doesn't mean = that the FreeBSD community [not to mention the freebsd-advocacy list!] = should have such an egocentric attitude! And... an anti-marketing one, I'd = say! If you wanna chase users away from *BSD, please go on... OK, it's free, so = you don't do it for money. But [even if you're hating GPL, like I do] do = you want to make it just for yourself, or for serving...hmmm... the = humanity? It's understandable that you, people which contributed in essential = ways to FreeBSD development, are proud of that. However, you haven't made that system only for you!Being better than Linux in many ways doesn't mean = that users SHOULD LIKE what you like, and never have another opinion, = because you don't want to hear it. Microsoft partially does this way. Linux, = doesn't, as far as I can see. I'm afraid Unix gurus don't have much sense of marketing [neither do I, = but this has nothing to do with the topic]. But you must agree you should = have _some_ marketing open-mindness! When you're writing your Resum=E9, = you're not telling how good you are, you're telling to put it in a way easily understandable by those stupid recruiters ;-) right? Think about it. Again: I hate these "religious" wars! But... I'm not sure that = Linux-people started this. I think FreeBSD community has too much... how do you say = for the French "orgueil"? Radu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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