Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:45:08 -0600 From: dmk <gh@over-yonder.net> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <20021123234508.GF11676@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <02d701c29337$08749e60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <200211232029.gANKTOs50088@flip.jhs.private> <02d701c29337$08749e60$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Moving to -chat, for the sake of my blood pressure... Anthony Atkielski said something like: > Julian writes: > > > Expanded Reality ;-) > > UNIX is a poor choice for the intellectually > > lazy, or incompetent; Usually than 50% of PC > > users are intellectually lazy, or incompetent; > > So UNIX is a poor choice for these people's desktop. > > The last statement is true. The previous two are not. Prove it. > Your disdain for people who happen not to share your interests or obsessions > is an excellent illustration of precisely the attitude that impedes the > advocacy of operating systems such as UNIX. Are you sure the impediment is not your cluttering the -advocacy list with this clearly far off-topic thread? > One reason FreeBSD and many other > operating systems remain only marginally present in many environments is > that their primary supporters are socially na?ve and gratuitously aggressive > young males. Oh? Prove it. > Worry not ... no mass migration from Microsoft operating systems to FreeBSD > is likely in the foreseeable future; and even if all other obstacles were > overcome to such a migration, the attitudes of people like yourself would > still prevent it. You say that like it's a bad thing. > > Dumb fumble & click lazy losers are best left > > to their MS rip off prices, bootlegs, viruses > > & crashes. > > See above. > > 6500 ported FreeBSD packages inc. many window > > managers gives a wide choice of desktops ... > > People don't want a wide choice of desktops. They just want a machine that > does the job, and then they're done. I use FreeBSD because it does the job. > If any of them are reading this thread, I'm sure you've scared them off > pretty effectively--more so than I can realistically counter with my own > meager dose of unemotional rationality, I'm afraid. Forgive me, for this last line caused me to snicker. Thank you for the entertainment, Anthony. dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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