From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 02:14:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F6C16A4CE; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 02:14:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from luzifer.incubus.de (incubus.de [80.237.207.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D6343D2F; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 02:14:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@incubus.de) Received: from [192.168.2.10] (pD95429AD.dip.t-dialin.net [217.84.41.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by luzifer.incubus.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A02A031FBC; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:14:35 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <420D669A.20000@incubus.de> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:14:50 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johnson David References: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641AE6@mvaexch01.acuson.com> In-Reply-To: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641AE6@mvaexch01.acuson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 02:14:42 -0000 Johnson David wrote: > Currently Windows rules the desktop world, even for diehard Unix shops. But > that will not last forever. We need to start thinking about the desktop > today. We need to stop the official discouragement of desktop FreeBSD. MacOS X is the "Desktop BSD". It is available today, and it works better than anything else at being a "desktop". Considering the sorry state of integrated "desktops" on Unix today (i.e., Gnome and KDE) and compare it with Windows, do you really think that will convince any Windows user? Windows really is bad enough already, why should they change for a much worse user interface. For those of us that have been using X11 with various window managers for the last decade or more, that isn't an issue -- we're used to a different way of working, but those Windows types expect quite different things, which they'll only find in MacOS, outside of Windows, for the forseeable future.