From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 8 17:57:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1117B15448 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:57:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA20212; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:57:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAmuaqzN; Fri Oct 8 17:57:23 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA01911; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:57:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199910090057.RAA01911@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Targeting the server: Not such a good idea? To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 00:57:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991008143949.043f2a30@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Oct 8, 99 03:28:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Before I comment on these comments, I believe everyone involved in > >FreeBSD would love to see FreeBSD be much more comparable to Windows ( > >support, apps, drivers, etc ) in the desktop world. However being that > >resources are finite then tough decisions must be made. > > It is true that resources are finite. But as FreeBSD grows in applicability, > the pool of resources available for its development will also expand. [ ... ] > I'm reminded of the quote from Richard Bach's "Jonathan Livingston > Seagull" -- "Argue for your limitations, and you get to keep them." This is your salient point. If someone wants to work on something, and you tell them that that's not where your platform is at, they will go elsewhere. It is only if someone asks to work on something, and you tell them "Sure! Welcome aboard! The more the merrier!" that you will attract contributors outside of your preestablished (or defacto) clique. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message