Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:37:19 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com> To: lewst <lewst@yahoo.com> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where is KDE 2.0.1 ?!? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012181128390.71411-100000@mothra.ecs.csus.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001218174234.3825.qmail@web2104.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, lewst wrote: # Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> wrote: # # > RH hires people (i.e. they get paid) to work on KDE, and in turn # > these people have time to spend following it every day. # > # > Nobody seems to be interested in paying a FreeBSD guy to do that. # # When the going gets tough, the tough gets going Will. Making # excuses instead of outperforming the competition under adversity # is a losing attitude. What do you do for a living then? While I agree that it's always nice to get a pleasent, kind response to any/every request made, most of the people working on FreeBSD are not doing it as part of their real job. I do not believe this to be "an excuse", simply a point of fact. If you feel that some other product meets your needs, then by all means, please use it. If you have specific questions that will help you decide if FreeBSD is the best product to meet your needs, then by all means, please ask them in a nice, kind, even handed way. Hopefully someone will use their free time to answer your question. If they do not, there are consultants and companies out there who will, for a fee. The obvious one that comes to mind is BSDi. Because of the differences in scope between the FreeBSD project (an OS) and Linux (a kernel), it's more correct to draw conclusions from more related scopes, OSs, for example, Red Hat Linux compared to FreeBSD, or Mandrake Linux compared to FreeBSD, or Caldera Linux compared to FreeBSD. Such comparisions will help in deciding which is the best for you. If you do not feel that you are getting enough support from the free time of others working in the FreeBSD project, please purchase a support contract to have your issues/questions/concerns/etc looked at. *********************************************************** * Joseph Scott The Office Of Water Programs * * joseph@randomnetworks.com joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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