From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 17:55:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.citechco.net (mail.citechco.net [203.127.137.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C6715021 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 17:55:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mojahed@citechco.net) Received: from mars.cosmos.net (ls2-25-196.citechco.net [203.127.137.196]) by mail.citechco.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA12337 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 07:46:53 +0600 Received: (from mojahed@localhost) by mars.cosmos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA02285 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 01:27:53 +0600 (BDT) (envelope-from mojahed) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 01:27:53 +0600 From: Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not enough information Message-ID: <20000107012752.B1981@mars.cosmos.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000801bf57c8$474e1b00$0200a8c0@enteract.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <000801bf57c8$474e1b00$0200a8c0@enteract.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 04:00:26PM -0600, Delmir Fernandes wrote: > > FreeBSD would be in much better position if it were sold to the > masses, and not only a very few experts. What most of this "masses" want is a nice TV typewriter and a budget calculator. Have you considered that there might be some people who want to do other things with their boxes? > Look at Microsoft... they are where they are not because their > product is better (actually, their products s$#&), I think their products are excellent for what they are made for. Who needs an uptime measured in years to write a letter? Or play the latest game? > they are where they are because they target the masses. You can > find the resources you need there... in the masses. I don't think my grandmother would want to write a device driver for FreeBSD anytime soon! -- Mojahed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message