From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 28 1:14:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E7E37B423 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 01:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA27490; Mon, 28 May 2001 02:13:19 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 02:06:04 -0600 To: Rahul Siddharthan From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Cc: Fredrik Olausson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010527172838.A11174@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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