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On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:13:20 -0700
Chip Camden wrote:

> Quoth Torfinn Ingolfsen on Tuesday, 26 July 2011:
> <snip>
> > > From what i hear, people are happy with the
> > > management of ports in OpenBSD, while most of people i hear are
> > > very unhappy with FreeBSD ports.
> > 
> > I would say that "most people your hear" isn't a representative
> > subset of all the people who use ports.
> > In my experience anyway.
> 
> Right.  Don't say "most people" unless you can back it up with a
> statistically significant sampling.  I expect the experiences of
> FreeBSD users vary much more than "most people" imagine. 

It seems more reasonable than the idea that most people using FreeBSD
are doing so despite being "very unhappy with FreeBSD ports". If that's
really true then we should give Beastie nipple-clamps and a ball-gag to
better appeal to our key demographic.