From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 29 08:00:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428F410656AD for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 08:00:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 599978FC1C for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 08:00:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n4T80Osr005518; Fri, 29 May 2009 10:00:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n4T80O9r005515; Fri, 29 May 2009 10:00:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:00:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Giorgos Keramidas In-Reply-To: <87r5y8cprs.fsf@kobe.laptop> Message-ID: References: <6C96EEF057EDE24197FECB0D1EA035044A8F6EB461@h1341255.aoemedia.de> <744a9119476160472a319bbc9f4fd799.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com> <065001c9def1$54ae3f40$fe0abdc0$@za.org> <20090527124014.6998139c@gom> <20090527203000.GA1328@fusion.opticnetworks.net> <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793EDCC@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> <4A1EF89C.9040505@isafeelin.org> <87prdsr5ep.fsf_-_@kobe.laptop> <87r5y8cprs.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On the need for moderated questions lists X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:00:32 -0000 >> nothing that prevent me from having an opinion about moderation and >> trying to explain to others that it make sense. > > While a change like this is possible, it is going to be very very hard. > To change something so deeply ingrained into the whole `culture' of why adding extra moderated list is a change of deeply ingrained culture? Once again i'm not for shutting down that list. Anyway some common ideas that had "ingrained" has to be revisited anyway, now or soon. Not only by FreeBSD community, but free software at all. The first will be the common idea of "free software should compete with commercial". My answer is that it should not as it already failed to do. And what's a gain even if it will be successful? As it's not commercial and not being sold. It already lives very fine in it's market niche. As FreeBSD never really tried to compete with say - windows - hard, it's still so good OS, based of real idea of unix, and still well optimized for performance. Actually it gets better every release.