Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:14:13 -0700 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@ontario.mooseriver.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chris@calldei.com, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, crh@outpost.co.nz Subject: Re: Jordan the Confused (Was: Jordan The Evil!) Message-ID: <19990415231413.A47332@ontario.mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <199904160601.XAA88836@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 11:01:51PM -0700 References: <19990415224102.A47059@ontario.mooseriver.com> <199904160601.XAA88836@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 11:01:51PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > No one is stoping you from writing the tools needed to make FreeBSD a > > "desktop-oriented" system. Just as no one is stoping you from writing a > > FreeBSD emulator for Linux which, if I remember right, was you last > > obsession. If you feel that there are things missing from FreeBSD you need > > to go and build them. > > Actually, a better question is why are people not writing applications? > Is it because they lack the programming skills, inefficient tools, > targetted goals, etc... Finally an intelligent question. Thank you! I don't think it is a lack of programming skills. I have written both device drivers and accounting packages. Let me tell you, a device driver is a lot harder to write but accounting packages are just boring. I mean, how many different ways can you think of to calculate a payroll check? I think we have the tools to do just about anything you could think of. I think the problem is a lot of FreeBSD people want to be kernel hackers and don't want to get their hands dirty with double-entry bookkeeping, warehouse, order-entry, or assent management systems. There is just not a lot of glory in the hacker world for these kinds of programs. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.1 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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