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Date:      Mon, 01 Feb 1999 11:37:11 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, marko@uk.radan.com
Cc:        jcwells@u.washington.edu, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Lets Endorse KDE Was: some slashdot thread
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990201113308.04678240@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990201113344W.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net>
References:  <Your message of "Mon, 01 Feb 1999 14:51:56 %2B0000"<36B5BF8C.6436A42D@uk.radan.com> <36B5BF8C.6436A42D@uk.radan.com>

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At 11:33 AM 2/1/99 -0500, W Gerald Hicks wrote:
 
>Is it really that important to attract a horde of whiny
>Windows users into FreeBSD?  

Actually, yes. FreeBSD is now seen as having faded into
insignificance as Linux gathers steam. And folks who
don't understand WHY that's happened are assuming that
it must be inferior in quality. FreeBSD is getting
slammed unfairly, and the core team isn't getting the
credit and respect it deserves for its hard, high
quality work.

The way to fix this *is* to broaden the user base.

Don't worry that they'll overload the developers
with FAQs. The newbies will start to help one another.
It's happened elsewhere.

--Brett


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