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Date:      Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:23:41 -0500
From:      "Zane C.B." <v.velox@vvelox.net>
To:        Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Popularity
Message-ID:  <20100702172341.1704b478@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100301010620.GB2894@comcast.net>
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On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:06:21 -0800
Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> wrote:

> No, it's more than the GPL licensing, although that's bad enough.
>=20
> GNU software is often bloated. Way too many commandline switches
> (using an overly verbose syntax). Feature creep everywhere, not
> just on the commandline.=20
>=20
> It runs counter to the basic Unix philosophy of small, cooperating
> programs, each doing one thing and doing it well.
>=20
> If you don't understand that there's an aesthetic aspect to Unix,
> you'll miss what a lot of people are complaining about with GNUish
> stuff.

General to me it has felt to be the complete opposite. In that they
are fairly feature barren to what exists for FreeBSD.

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