From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 18 20:35:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lazlo.tci.com (coral.tci.com [198.178.8.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA412155C5 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:35:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@tci.com) Received: from tci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lazlo.tci.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA06877; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:35:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chris@tci.com) From: chris@tci.com Message-Id: <199903190435.VAA06877@lazlo.tci.com> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:35:10 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: Confusion To: mmercer@ipass.net Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, me@T-F-I.freeserve.co.uk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36F1C408.B5156356@ipass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Mar, Michael E. Mercer wrote: > All, > > I come from a perspective of both sides. I know a little about > FreeBSD because I subscribe to mailing-lists and try to keep > up with FreeBSD current. > > BUT I agree with the consumers side in this. From what you stated > below, 'From the README.TXT' implies the consumer already bought > the DISKS or whatever. Also with the consumers point of view, > the consumer would like to know what they have in their hands > before they get it. My arguments here are weak, I know, and I don't > really want to get into a battle here. This is my $.02 worth. I have to agree. I've recently been fairly successfully in getting the NT admins where I work to to at least dip their toes in this stuff (Linux/FreeBSD). Knowing absolutely nothing about it, they're left to reading the packaging to try and figure out what it is they have in their hands. Jordan's comments may very well be true, but how is an end consumer who has never before in their life seen it supposed to see the README.TXT without first buying the package? In the Winders world (and, I would venture to say, in most others) the more recent version of Product X is always preferred over the older alternative. chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message