From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 06:24:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E399C1065672 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:24:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-308.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-308.bluehost.com [67.222.53.254]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD0B98FC16 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:24:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 13992 invoked by uid 0); 15 Dec 2008 06:22:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy6.bluehost.com with SMTP; 15 Dec 2008 06:22:30 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=k7mRzyGHIESZmP+7Lq2rgKvgH3xpXnWyha7EaZd58QLU8B/OAFDkmRXtX5VrwppyCcuzvUHCa9XU1mSY2lKM4rQ/jxMhASoUKGHvl0p+CAWuo6ob1xrtXtfSr1xhzIa1; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LC6sp-0002gS-WE for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:24:48 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:24:21 -0700 Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:24:21 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081215062421.GH5527@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20081213143200.GA5026@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <18755.53118.854987.966113@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20081213182336.V41178@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <87skosf02b.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20081213184751.N41297@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <94136a2c0812131010p648d1a81q54f62bb3e1a61026@mail.gmail.com> <20081213200315.A44344@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y0Ed1hDcWxc3B7cn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081213200315.A44344@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:24:48 -0000 --y0Ed1hDcWxc3B7cn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 08:04:18PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >than not you discourage beginners from getting interested in this >=20 > i don't discourage beginners that want to learn. >=20 > Most of them don't. Considering that, the moment someone shows up and says "I'm a Windows user, but I'm thinking about trying out FreeBSD," you immediately assume the person doesn't want to learn without bothering to read any further, I don't think you actually have any way of knowing whether anyone wants to learn most of the time. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Colin McFadyen: "Unix is not an 'a-ha' experience, it is more of a 'holy-shit' experience." --y0Ed1hDcWxc3B7cn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklF+BUACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVvrQCgwyu4+RFjO/3/WWbtKWU7epLN GiEAoKYeJySeNZgkzsSasuptpHrR3AWm =H4bM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0Ed1hDcWxc3B7cn--