From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 18:22:30 2005 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 B473116A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:22:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15FA843D41 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:22:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Freebsd0101@aol.com) Received: from Freebsd0101@aol.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id n.6a.4cbd2558 (18555); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:22:22 -0500 (EST) From: Freebsd0101@aol.com Message-ID: <6a.4cbd2558.2f1967de@aol.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:22:22 EST To: algould@datawok.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5116 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: Thank you! 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: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:22:30 -0000 In a message dated 1/14/05 8:12:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, algould@datawok.com writes: > People on the FreeBSD and Debian GNU/Linux mailing lists are very > kind and help you in any case, if you ask questions politely and you > have searched and read tha manuals first. > So, why do we start always the war? The real war should be against > the Bill Gates OSes, instead of fighting among us. I have never heard The "war" is not against anyone, particularly against commercial O/Ss. The truth is that FreeBSD has lost their way. They started out with a focus on Intel platforms and a solid and dedicated development team. Now they have lost some of their top talent in development, and they are trying to support too many platforms with a skeleton force. They simply are not in position to compete in a "war" of any kind. The "war" should be to do what you do better than anyone else, however small the niche. FreeBSD has lost sight of what it wants to be, through a lack of focus and conviction, by spreading themselves too thin over too many platforms. Once FreeBSD was THE choice on an i386 platform. Its now in danger of becoming just another cool O/S, which is a darned shame.