Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:57:41 -0700 From: Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is pkg quarterly really needed? Message-ID: <393afc86-6628-294e-5fc8-e016650e9e73@bluerosetech.com> In-Reply-To: <20170420052201.GC31559@lonesome.com> References: <58F61A8D.1030309@a1poweruser.com> <CALfReyctL3vTt756oyh1ZTf%2BkgpAOHwp_SUZQCFQiZDccFNMow@mail.gmail.com> <ljhffcphq3bqr8dk2lrlld11ola28b7gqp@4ax.com> <20170420052201.GC31559@lonesome.com>
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On 04/19/2017 22:22, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 04:37:05PM -0400, scratch65535@att.net wrote: >> (Right now, it's quite hard to resist the paranoid suspicion that >> maybe this crazy, anti-real-user behavior is a subtle way to kill >> freebsd altogether by driving away the non-hobbyists.) > > That's one explanation. > > The other, possible, explanation, is that the efforts of a group of > volunteers isn't adequate enough for every use case -- including your own. > > But, of course, feel free to cast aspersions wherever and whenever. We're > just machines, we have no feelings whatsoever. > > Now if no one minds, I'm going to go back to contemplate the existential > question of "why do I even bother trying to fix things". Because the work you and everyone else does on FreeBSD makes it possible for me to do the work I do for dozens of non-profits who need safe, reliable network and internet services without paying retail or being pigeonholed into an online provider's one-size product. For every scratch65535, there's one like me who doesn't have to deal with the expense of Windows servers or the increasingly black-box nature of Linux distros without also having to compile everything from scratch on the weekly. Mel, the IT admin who gets to run 11-R and -CURRENT in exchange for free books and actually helping people because she doesn't have to say things like, "I can do that, but the licensing is half your 5-year budget."
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