Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:05:26 +1000 From: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors Message-ID: <1229234726.18610.112.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20081213200543.GC51063@kokopelli.hydra> References: <20081211170011.777236f8@gom.home> <20081212015814.GB32982@kokopelli.hydra> <20081212120437.B3687@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081212181258.GE36348@kokopelli.hydra> <ghuau9$juk$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081212203202.H4803@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081212150228.520ad7f8@scorpio> <20081212212931.F5072@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081213094403.GH39031@kokopelli.hydra> <20081213104642.M8959@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081213200543.GC51063@kokopelli.hydra>
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On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 13:05 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:46:55AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > >>>I honestly have no idea what you are trying to communicate here. > > >> > > >>exactly what i wrote. the problem is that people like You (and millions > > >>others) are willing to buy product without any documentation. > > > > > >You may find this surprising, but sometimes circumstances lead people to > > >make purchases of "total package" products rather than building something > > > > there are products for them. > > In other words, your answer seems to be: > > "We don't want users who like FreeBSD, but want to use it on a laptop. > FreeBSD should never be used on a laptop." > > I'd say I can safely ignore you, knowing that's your attitude, if it > weren't for the fact that a lot of other people won't know that down the > line, and you may permanently damage the FreeBSD project by chasing off > potential contributors. > > Is there any way I can get you to stop being such a contentious trojan > horse of an enemy to the FreeBSD project? > If one were spiritually minded one might see another reason behind this.
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