Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:37:40 -0400 From: Dan Ponte <dcp1990@neptune.atopia.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new FreeBSD-webpage Message-ID: <20051006213740.GA37835@neptune.atopia.net> In-Reply-To: <20051006213326.GA33286@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <b41c75520510060225h2eeecdd8w@mail.gmail.com> <di2s9q$4ss$1@sea.gmane.org> <43455D3E.5040007@mbnet.fi> <20051006204336.GA36557@neptune.atopia.net> <20051006213326.GA33286@xor.obsecurity.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:33:26PM -0400, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:43:36PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote: > > > I second that all the way. Personally, I feel that the FreeBSD project > > is doing too much in the way of appearing "trendy" to attract new users, > > and it's at the expense of its existing userbase. Not to mention that > > the old site rendered perfectly in elinks, while the new one is a mess > > (scrolling all over the place). > > Thanks for sharing your opinion, but you forgot to explain how a new > website will make existing FreeBSD users stop using the operating > system. > > Kris I should have worded that differently. By "expense" I didn't mean that the existing userbase would shrink, but, rather, it would be at a disadvantage to it. Though, I don't think that anyone would have truly seen it as the former. -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. -- Henry David Thoreau [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDRZkj8dUD8SpKFR8RAj5MAJwMg2/kwNzyjnspPBVFvyszGKmGHQCgjgyW sOjerbSt61qyLyKwjABDor4= =Vbg2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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