From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 26 23:36: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80FB837B948 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 23:35:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 888 invoked from network); 27 May 2000 06:35:57 -0000 Received: from du40.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.40) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 27 May 2000 06:35:57 -0000 Message-ID: <392F6CAC.1988C2EA@mail.ptd.net> Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 02:35:24 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD WAS:Re: IE forFreeBSDPetition References: <008801bfc799$88cddde0$ed64aad0@leviathan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org gh wrote: > > > My thoughts during this discussion should never be construed as a request > > to dumb down the OS. > > I think it is safe now to say that we all essentially agree. > ``We'' being the FreeBSD userbase, developers, everybody. > > -We should welcome *all* to the FreeBSD world. > -We should *not* lower our expectations to benefit the majority (ie: > clueless majority) > -We should do what we can to help those new to FreeBSD. > -We should absolutely *not* dumb down the OS. > We could, however, provide assistance, in, perhaps, more friendly terms(?) > -We should at all times maintain an attitude of friendly, helpful, > snobbiness. ;-)) > > Eh? > Perhaps said more eloquently, but that's pretty much the gist of it, no? I think the important thing is not to create false expectations (of ease and simplicity) in the minds of those who have never been exposed to a real operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message