From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 12 21:40:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E60155DB for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 21:40:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA67936; Wed, 12 May 1999 21:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: "David Schwartz" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 May 1999 21:01:14 PDT." <000001be9cf5$3ee86210$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 21:40:06 -0700 Message-ID: <67932.926570406@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > you lend credibility to those who say that FreeBSD and Linux won't be able > to compete in the corporate arena because what's coded is what the > developers want, rather than what the users want/need. I don't see it that way so much as the simple fact that a lot of users basically need to change the way they think of themselves, period, and that's simply the name of that tune. Users have been conditioned by commercial software into becoming "consumers" rather than seeing this free software stuff for what it is; the software equivalent of a community building a new meeting hall through group effort. If the community just sits around in their houses and periodically calls the meeting hall committee to ask how construction is going, they wouldn't be particularly surprised to hear that the answer was continually: "Terrible, where the hell are you guys?!" With software, for some reason, many people have yet to make that perceptual leap. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message