Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:39:35 -0700 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: "Gregory A. Gilliss" <ggilliss@netpublishing.com>, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Look what a mess I made (was Brilliant and very useful...) Message-ID: <200304071139.35984.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <20030407153600.GA51613@netpublishing.com> References: <20030407153600.GA51613@netpublishing.com>
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On Monday 07 April 2003 08:36 am, Gregory A. Gilliss wrote: > The point - the reason that I thought that this article has value - > is that the FreeBSD community doesn't - dare I say it - pander - to > the user community. "pander: someone who caters to or exploits the weaknesses of others" I hope you can see my point. There is a line between advocacy and pandering that we should not cross. > Good tools require no instruction. That was the point, not the rest > of this didactic cruft. My automobile is a most excellent tool. But it required a lot of instruction. > Who among you ever read the instructions for a phone (not a cordless > multi- frequency-answering-machine-GPS-breathalyzer phone, but the > unbox-it-plug- it-in-listen-for-dial-tone phone? Or a hammer? When FreeBSD has the lack of functionality of a hammer, then it won't need instructions. Think about it. A hammer only does one thing (two if you have a clawhammer). FreeBSD does a million things in a million different ways. Of course it needs instructions! Cheers, David
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