From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 9 17:07:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49DFE16A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 17:07:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-m25.mx.aol.com (imo-m25.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A0943D5A for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 17:07:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TM4525@aol.com) Received: from TM4525@aol.com by imo-m25.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.7.) id s.f4.4270a7d7 (4410); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:07:17 -0400 (EDT) From: TM4525@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:07:17 EDT To: tedm@toybox.placo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5112 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:07:33 -0000 In a message dated 10/9/04 12:56:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tedm@toybox.placo.com writes: >"I just hope that pounding packets through a socket and >timing mySQL selects aren't the entirety of OUR team's arsenal." >And it's not just this sentence although this is one of the most >blatent. You are using verbage and terminology that clearly sets >you in opposition to the rest of us, users and developers, of FreeBSD. >If this isn't a challenge you don't know the meaning of the word. Maybe you think its a "challenge" because the words have teeth? Who is "the rest of us" in your estimation? Those under the thumb of wind river, or those of us trying to run small business who would prefer not to be bamboozled into using something "new" because you need free testers for your code? I monitored this list for months,and I never once heard any one of "you" tell anyone that 4.x was a better choice if running your business with the most efficient current solution was your goal. You don't care about the "freeBSD community", you care about your own agenda, whoever "you" are. If you're not going to be honest with the community, then there's going to be a separation of "you" with the agenda and "us" with the need for honest answers to our questions so that we can run our businesses effectively. I love freeBSD. I have the skills to get my own answers as to the suitability of one OS or one version to another. Most people on this list don't. So don't steer them to 5.x when you know its not yet ready for prime time, because people rely on you to give good, honest answers in order to earn a living.