From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 17 18: 8:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A83137B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:08:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A357843E4A for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:08:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0277.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.22] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18DbL5-00075p-00; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:08:39 -0800 Message-ID: <3DD84B42.81915B5C@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:06:58 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? References: <20021117215730.W23359-100000@hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > Marc writes: > > > Then, those ppl shouldn't be MFC'ng code down > > > into stable if they aren't willing to be > > > responsible for problems that such causes ... > > > > My understanding is that the people who work on FreeBSD are not paid to > > do so. If this is so, there is really no justification for complaint. > > Beggars can't be choosers. > > So, you are saying we should sit quietly back and accept the > instabilities? Man, will that ever get FreeBSD into the corporate IT > departments ... No, as usual, he's putting back-handed Windows advocacy into the FreeBSD mailing list archives, to stir up FUD, and you are feeding him straight lines, which he's twisting to his own ends. For the record, commercial software is often more buggy than free software, because the person writing the commercial software is doing it to a design he may not particularly like, or even thinks is stupid, and he's just a wage-schmuck implementing a bad design, whereas the free software is written by someone who is doing it for love. If you want to draw a distinction between free and commercial software, start with free software UI's suck, compared to the very pretty commercial UI's. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message