Date: 05 Sep 2001 16:28:38 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better free then to become a slave.. Message-ID: <86lmjtodw9.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> In-Reply-To: <01090512223400.01794@gsf65.gdf.com> References: <01090512223400.01794@gsf65.gdf.com>
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Bas Willems <next@euronet.nl> writes: > But since Linux became a bigger player i get the feeling that FreeBSD > developers and its community are becoming more dirtier and unreliable > every day. hmmm. You want to make statements like that when a simple move to FreeBSD from Linux reduced our support calls by 60%? I'd like to see some facts or numbers to back the statement in your direction. > I would like to annouce to you that i will drop FreeBSD (i alway > bought the software to support development) and will switch to Linux > and OpenBSD. So in order to get Freedom (and here I argue against the move to Linux, not OpenBSD), you will drop an operating system with several years good stability and reliability reputations, and move to an OS with a trashed VM subsystem? You'll move from FreeBSD to an OS that won't actually acknowledge by name its main contributor (the GNU project) in the name of Freedom? You'll move from FreeBSD to an kernel (NOT an OS, contrary to popular belief) where ONE man gets to say what's in and what's out (if Linux was a country, he would be a dictator) in the name of Freedom? You'll move to an OS that's burned more venture capital in the last year than I think FreeBSD has ever had in the name of avoiding Redmond like tactics? To avoid dirty developers, you'll move to an OS where the two lead figures (Linus and Alan) frequently argue in public forums? You'll move to an operating system where the maintainer of the IDE system writes an application designed to destroy disk drives because the dictator won't include his patch ? To get stability, you'll move to an OS where every distributor maintains their own kernel tree with their own patches making most distributions just different enough to be a support nightmare ? You'll move to an operating system with 3 completely different packaging systems and watch the zealots burn you at the stake because you won't support their chosen package manager ( and it's expensive to support multiple package managers, trust me! ) You are truly strange and I must learn to stop feeding the trolls. -- Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com> Phone : +44 (0) 20 7017 1221 Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. - Yeats To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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