Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:01:17 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> To: Seth <seth@psychotic.aberrant.org> Cc: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>, mij@osdn.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web page suggestion Message-ID: <85731.982130477@winston.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Seth <seth@psychotic.aberrant.org> of "Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:04:28 EST." <20010213230428.A70865@psychotic.aberrant.org>
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Hmmmm. I think some people here are arguing from such false premises that it'd be truly impossible to "win" either side of the debate in FreeBSD's favor. Sure, there are people who come to FreeBSD with highly unrealistic expectations which are then shattered, causing grief both to them and to the people they dump on. There are also developers with limited time and journalists doing press evaluations who can't spend all day learning how to install FreeBSD. These are valid data points on both sides of the "easy of use, ease of installation" argument and since you can't please both sides, the best you can do is please yourself. I obviously can't speak for what pleases all of you, but some of the things which please me are those which represent the very best examples of their art. A virtual memory subsystem is an intricate and non-trivial piece of technology which is best evaluated on its performance and elegance of design, even though that might not be immediately comprehensible at a glance. A web page which serves as the general public "portal" for FreeBSD, on the other hand, should be evaluated on ease of comprehension and sheer usefulness for the greatest percentage of its viewing public. It would obviously be foolish to judge one objective by the standards of the other, yet I see that kind of thing all the time. We need to simply do the best job we can in *every* category and assume that any problems which might arise as a consequence of doing too good a job can and will be dealt with when the time comes. If we do a bad job at something, it's still a bad job no matter what the justification and we'll never know just how much better we would have done had it been done properly. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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