Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 02:06:04 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Fredrik Olausson <fredrik@speechcraft.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010527172838.A11174@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105252316300.294-100000@molly.telia.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost>
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At 09:28 AM 5/27/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >Why don't you start your own BSD-licensed desktop project? Because for desktops -- and I know this is a controversial statement -- it seems that commercial is a better model than open source. All of the truly successful and well-accepted desktops are commercial, and there seem to be good reasons why this is so. >I'd say most users of BSD whom I know use linux as a GUI -- that is, >their window manager / desktop environment was developed on linux, >though it may be ported to run natively on FreeBSD. The "BSD >community" as such has made no contribution to the desktop, FVWM is essentially BSD-licensed. It's not exactly tearing up the charts. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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