Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:24:28 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "unknown source" <callihn@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Would it be so hard? Message-ID: <00b201c118c8$ab1524e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <F119Joma8QyOPzPQXWk000090fe@hotmail.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of unknown source >better for some I guess mainly newbies. Just remember I was a customer I >paid I seen I talked I left unhappy and many others will and people will ask >us about freebsd and we will tell them,. Unfortunately you didn't pay _us_ so ultimately we don't care if you feel you wasted your money or not. Sorry but that's the way it is. You should try contacting the people that you did pay, they will be a lot more concerned. >SO you had better hope they like >the ideal of how it is currently maintained and distibuted and remember >there are more lazy idiots in the world than there are geniuses. > There's such a thing as a customer that costs you more money than you will ever realize in profit from them. Lazy idiot customers that aren't willing to pay much are definitely in this group. Lazy idiot customers who ARE willing to pay aren't - but Microsoft speciallizes in collecting those. FreeBSD as a whole benefits when "customers" who are willing to learn and contribute to it start using the OS. It is harmed when customers who are unwilling to learn and unwilling to contribute start consuming what resources there are out in the community. If setting up a few simple hurdles to go over such as making people patch their own stuff will filter out that second group then I'm all for it. It doesen't seem to have filtered out the customers from the first group. Which group are you in? Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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