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Date:      Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:53:49 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: desktop stupidity 
Message-ID:  <199902030353.VAA58141@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>  of "Tue, 02 Feb 1999 18:55:07 PST." <9436.918010507@zippy.cdrom.com> 

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"Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>
> The #2 camp folks are, frankly, just a waste of biomass.  They don't
> want to read docs or exert any more than the most token effort and
> they're not interested in making their own mistakes since they're also
> not really interested in learning anything at all, being entirely
> focused on the "reward" of being able to call oneself a FreeBSD user
> at school recess the next day or getting that porn site up and
> generating revenue.  From these folks, you here constant comments to
> the effect of (and I'm not paraphrasing) "Don't tell me to read the
> docs, JUST ANSWER MY QUESTION!" and "I don't ever read the docs - docs
> suck!  I hate reading all that crap."

Somehow I think the above concept also applies to Pointy-Haired-Bosses 
who reject FreeBSD and similar "because it lacks commercial support." 
Not that it really lacks commercial support, or support, its just that 
they don't want to bother thinking up new excuses to *their* bosses 
when something happens and there is down time.


--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.



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