From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 12 0:10:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 885) id 65A6F37B401; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:10:23 -0700 From: Eric Melville To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can we learn from this article? Message-ID: <20011012001023.A96202@FreeBSD.org> References: <20011011141126.B6386@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011011141126.B6386@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:11:27PM +0100 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 > http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/14035.html > > from OSOpinion, expresses the concern that a huge opportunity was missed > by not advancing the free Unixen in the gap between Win2k and XP. Now > that XP has headless server control and other features that make it more > condusive, what is the possibility that IT managers will go with XP > instead of a non-MS server OS? Will performance matter at that point? > Or will security be the up-and-coming burning issue for XP? They've got to be kidding. I've hear that osopinion.com approaches slashdot levels of idiocy at times, but this one is over the line. What's with the claim that people are "wasting their time arguing over kde and gnome"? In the free software world, the general low-clue pointy-hair managers do not exist. So, instead of them, we get the troll kiddies, the ones that whine all day about this being better than that. What difference does it make? It's not like either of them ever write any useful code. The claim that win32 will now stomp the unix world because it has serial console support and some shell tools is pathetic as well. Since when does just catching up to the rest of the world make one superior? Next on amazon.com: "I'm A Massive Tool", by Adam Barr. Admittedly, I enjoy the occasional piece of anti-linux propaganda, but this article is just useless. As for the notion of learning something from it, the only lesson here is that some people are best ignored. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message