Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:30:39 -0400 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open Vs Free BSD Message-ID: <a333b2be0906191230y214303bfj3b8fc638a9c53c42@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3c1674c90906191146x551e70cdl564e6a0d59941484@mail.gmail.com> References: <735E59909DEB44AF92825EA7C65CF430@ionicoffice.ionic.co.uk> <200906190623.10417.andres@msu.edu> <20090619182326.GX12531@manor.msen.com> <3c1674c90906191146x551e70cdl564e6a0d59941484@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org> wrote: > Individuals in each of the camps (Free, Open, Net) are frequently > deeply invested in their platforms of choice to the point where they > identify with them. In addition, many if not most of us are only > familiar with one of them. Thus, it isn't really fair to ask us to > compare the three. You will enjoy more success by asking each of the > three projects what their respective strengths are. > > > Cheers, > Kip > During reading of questions and answers to such comparison issues it is possible to observe one very important ( in my opinion , missing ) concept : In engineering , there is no an abstract < better than > concept by itself . As an example we may compare : bicycle , motorcycle , car , lorry , bus . aeroplane , boat , ship , transatlantic , train , ... Which one is better than the other one ? If you give an answer that < x is better than y > you are implicitly using a MEASURE of COMPARISON to solve a PROBLEM . When that the very MEASURE of COMPARISON for the PROBLEM is not specified , the abstract comparison is NOT useful and meaningful . For that reason , it is useful at the beginning to give a description of the problem in precise terms and then ask which tool solves this problem with respect to the others with respect to advantages and disadvantages of the tools . After enumerating these ideas it is possible to make decisions to select an appropriate one which solves the problem as much as possible . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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