Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:02:21 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Daemon's Advocate article Message-ID: <20040302003221.GI71140@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20040301194121.97837.qmail@web41108.mail.yahoo.com> References: <200403011109.33238.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <20040301194121.97837.qmail@web41108.mail.yahoo.com>
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--hTiIB9CRvBOLTyqY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 1 March 2004 at 11:41:21 -0800, Scott I. Remick wrote: > --- Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> wrote: >> I'm a desktop user. I have noticed more than once some active disdain >> towards the desktop by FreeBSD developers. Why is this? Did I miss the >> sign out front saying "servers only"? You don't have to be a >> dumb-downed system like Lindows to be suitable for the desktop. > > I have to concur. For some reason, there seems to be a common attitude that > if you use FreeBSD to any extent, you must be a C++ programmer with the > ability to write drivers and patch applications. While I fully respect the > fact that this is a volunteer effort, the above can come off as rather harsh > and deterring for a new user. We FreeBSD users often scold the Linux > community for their attitude problems... why must we replace one bad > attitude with another in our own community? > > The people who volunteer their free time for the good of the FreeBSD > community can do a lot of things in their sleep which are beyond the > abilities of the common desktop user. Perhaps some have some free time, > perhaps others find a request simple enough that they can balance their time > to handle something that would help someone else. But to make a polite > request and get back "Why don't you port it yourself if you want it?" or > "patch/driver submissions welcome" conveys an impression that FreeBSD is for > developers only... if you can't code, your input isn't desired. Yes, this attitude gets on my nerves too. > I'm sorry to see Greg leave. I own his book and found it very useful. I'm not leaving: I'm still here. I've just left the core team. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --hTiIB9CRvBOLTyqY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAQ9YVIubykFB6QiMRAv9LAJ4yxJwXsTpB1Z/SypAl/BILjoGCyACdE56S 8/YtzzPxqf9aN9jEOUwQQ58= =awfN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hTiIB9CRvBOLTyqY--
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