Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:07:23 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Assuming We Want FreeBSD to Grow: Who Is It For? Message-ID: <42129CCB.5030203@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <200502151655.43509.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <42125E71.30804@tbc.net> <200502151655.43509.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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Joshua Tinnin wrote: > On Tuesday 15 February 2005 12:41 pm, Shawn Harrison <harrison@tbc.net> > wrote: > >>So, we want lots of people to adopt FreeBSD. Who are they? To me? They are users that are: 1. Fed up with the MS upgrades 2. Fed up with paying too much for software (apps and OS) 3. Looking for a viable alternative to the MS empire 4. NOT your average Windows user. The OS, although geared for servers - does well (IMHO and experience) as a desktop PC. As a desktop environment, we would need to ensure that the average Windows user is aware that it's an OS NOT for him/her. Nor should it ever be developed for Joe Windows-User. Windows was created for users that tend not to care if they ever update/protect/etc. the PC they are on. They don't want to know what a console is. The don't care nor understand why Unix is almost always better then Windows. As long as Joe Windows-User can point -n- click, that's about as much work as they want to do. You need to remember why Windows was created. To give the overall population then mindless alternative to using a PC. Thanks to MS, we have a dumbed-down society. Do we really want to develop FreeBSD to be used by these groups of users (No offense intended)? I think not - for when you start to create an OS for the masses, you are doing nothing more then creating a Windows Clone... -- Best regards, Chris In any series of calculations, errors tend to occur at the opposite end to the end at which you begin checking for errors.
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