From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 26 22: 8: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postal.linkfast.net (postal.linkfast.net [208.160.105.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E26D37B9FA for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 22:08:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grasshacker@linkfast.net) Received: from leviathan (p237.usr.linkfast.net [208.170.100.237]) by postal.linkfast.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F13F9B2D; Sat, 27 May 2000 00:07:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <008801bfc799$88cddde0$ed64aad0@leviathan> From: "gh" To: "Jason C. Wells" , References: Subject: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD WAS:Re: IE forFreeBSDPetition Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 00:07:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > My thoughts during this discussion should never be construed as a request > to dumb down the OS. I think it is safe now to say that we all essentially agree. ``We'' being the FreeBSD userbase, developers, everybody. -We should welcome *all* to the FreeBSD world. -We should *not* lower our expectations to benefit the majority (ie: clueless majority) -We should do what we can to help those new to FreeBSD. -We should absolutely *not* dumb down the OS. We could, however, provide assistance, in, perhaps, more friendly terms(?) -We should at all times maintain an attitude of friendly, helpful, snobbiness. ;-)) Eh? Perhaps said more eloquently, but that's pretty much the gist of it, no? Dan My main, I suppose one could call it so, fear was that the OS is becoming `dumbed down' to benefit those lacking clues. > > Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells/ > Jason Wells > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message