From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 06:05:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C94216A446 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 06:05:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: from salvador.pacific.net.sg (salvador.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2A9543D49 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 06:05:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 29306 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2005 06:05:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maxwell2.pacific.net.sg) (203.120.90.192) by salvador with SMTP; 23 Jun 2005 06:05:11 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.107] ([210.24.122.16]) by maxwell2.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id <20050623060511.DGCA28012.maxwell2.pacific.net.sg@[192.168.0.107]>; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:05:11 +0800 Message-ID: <42BA5112.6050108@pacific.net.sg> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:05:06 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: oceanare pte ltd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050514) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrew L. Gould" References: <42BA2E0D.2090001@pacific.net.sg> <200506222334.46444.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <200506222334.46444.algould@datawok.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ted Mittelstaedt , advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Explaining FreeBSD features X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 06:05:20 -0000 Hi, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Wednesday 22 June 2005 10:35 pm, Erich Dollansky wrote: > >>Hi, > > /--big snip--/ > That was a good idea. > That's a great analogy; but I disagree with the way you've applied it. > > Yes, the hunters and farmers shared the food. That's not to say that > the farmers wanted to use the bows and arrows, or that the hunters > wanted to use a harvesting tool. If a farmer chose to use a bow and > arrow, he/she would be irresponsible not to take a safety lesson > (RTFM). Will ever any farmer have taken a bow if there was no other way than RTFM? Just give them the bow, make sure nothing happens to yourself and otehr and let them have a try. > > That's okay. FreeBSD users are currently "specialized" in their This is one of the reasons of low 'market' share. > interest in computer technology when compared to the average Windows > user. That's okay too. Specialized tools serve are used by > specialized individuals; although all may benefit indirectly. > > I support better documentation. I don't think there's any argument I would not say there is a need for a better documentation as people who are IT professionals are fine with it. There is the need for a second set of documentation the avarage person on the road will understand. > there. The idea that FreeBSD should be usable for all levels of > computer users, however, is like putting training wheels on a racing > bicycle. Any time you modify a professional tool to make it accessible If Porsche would stop selling cars to people not pushing the cars to the limit, they would sell a few hundreds a year instead of many tenthousands. > to all, the tool loses some level of efficiency or power. In the case > of FreeBSD, it would also absorb valuable development resources. > This is what it should not. I think that there are enough people here who like to help out with their limited knowledge if there would not be this certain tone here if people do not use a very serious tone and lingo in their answers. > All of this reminds me of a book I saw at Barnes & Noble last year: > "Bioinfomatics for Dummies". Think about it: does anyone on this list > want a dummy messing with genetics? > We do not want them to run web server, just normal home PCs with FreeBSD instead of Windows or Linux. Erich