Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:09:33 -0800 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Subject: Re: Daemon's Advocate article Message-ID: <200403011109.33238.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <20040229222159.GA47191@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20040229222159.GA47191@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Sunday 29 February 2004 02:21 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200402/dadvocate.html > > I found the article very interesting. > > What do you all think? What is being done to keep BSD from ending up > where Greg says it might be going - suitable only for developers? What is being done? Nothing. I get the impression that no one "in charge" is the slightest bit concerned about the FreeBSD user. This is most notable on the desktop side, but it extends to any user. There's this attitude that if you want something in FreeBSD, you must do it yourself. But why should it be any other way? FreeBSD developers are all volunteers. They work on what they do because that's what they want to do. And since they're all primarily kernel and system software people, we end up with a great OS, but a rather lackluster environment. The lack of commercialization doesn't help either. I think this is the only long term advantage Linux has over the BSDs. Who pays people to work on the boring and dreary stuff? Who pays for that new piece of hardware so a driver can be written sometime before it becomes obsolete? (I think this situation will turn around as FreeBSD gains users and becomes noticed by hardware vendors, just like what happened to Linux about four years ago). 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. David
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