Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 17:15:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "stan@osgroup.com" <stan@osgroup.com> Cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Kernel config script Message-ID: <199905310015.RAA12765@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 May 1999 18:14:31 CDT." <01BEAAC8.445E89A0.stan@osgroup.com>
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> On Sunday, May 30, 1999 5:39 PM, Mike Smith [SMTP:mike@smith.net.au] wrote: > > > I think its useful if it gets linux people less afraid of FreeBSD. > > > > I'm not sure we want those sort of people. > > You don't want FreeBSD to have more users? We want more users, sure. But we're not desperate for them; there are certain classes of users that it's in our interests _not_ to attract. > Making the script is like making more documentation. Is the current > FreeBSD documentation so plentiful that making more documentation would > harm somebody? Making such a script is specifically targetted at a small group of users; those accustomed to the Linux way of doing things and too inflexible or untalented to learn a new way. Right now, these people aren't users we're interested in - they represent more workload and more support expense than we have free to give. Accumulating users like these is like growing barnacles; it doesn't take too many of them to severely impede forward progress. Of course, if we manage to acquire some more thrust in the form of people willing to write documentation, then we can afford more barnacles. Do I see you offering some of your time? -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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