Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:10:51 +1000 From: Jim Mock <jim@blues.ghis.net> To: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <rfotescu@idsrom.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <19990726191051.B8664@blues.ghis.net> In-Reply-To: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C154058@id-bucharest.idsrom.com> References: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C154058@id-bucharest.idsrom.com>
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On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 at 11:39:21 +0300, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > > > > You're right, I'll switch my servers over to Linux right > > > > away. > > > > > > > > P.s. There's Linux wallpaper? > > > > > > Now, THAT is malicious!! The Linux penguin is all over, in all > > > sizes, and the *BSD community isn't able to spread their own > > > daemon! This IS a shame! > > > > Look, if you're not happy with what's available, make some > > yourself instead of bitching and expecting other people to do it. > > You were shown where to find images, but they're still not good > > enough.. bitching and moaning about it isn't solving anything or > > making other images that don't exist magically appear. It's only > > going to end up getting on everyone's nerves (especially people > > who *do* contribute), and get you a bunch hostile responses. > > With *that* kind of approaching people and issues, you should NOT > be surprised by the fact that FreeBSD has an unappropriatedly low > audience, despite its better stability and performance, compared > with Linux! *Sigh* No, that's the kind of response people who contribute nothing but complaining should expect. If you're not happy with something, *do* something about it instead of complaining about it. > Now, when I see that FreeBSD community is made by such _proud_ > people as you are [and remember: I was trying to became a FreeBSD > advocate, even if I'm coming from Linux! so we weren't in any > "religious" war!], I remember :-) > I may change my mind. Maybe FreeBSD is not the best choice. Maybe > other Unix-like Oses [primarily, Linux, I don't know which > distribution, but let's say Linux for now] should take from FreeBSD > all the good stuff andf that's all! I hate GPL, but due to the fact > that it also exist a LGPL for the libraries, writing code from > scratch and *dynamically* linking them with gnu libs make easy to > keep private your sources, hence developping commercial apps for > Linux. Why losing so much time for persuading people to switch to > FreeBSD if the FreeBSD community doesn't want this? Let them enjoy > this marvelous OS just for themelves, in the club... I've got no problem at all with people switching to, or wanting to advocate FreeBSD, but do it for the right reasons.. *NOT* because it has fancy wallpaper available or color ls. All I'm saying, is instead of complaining about the 'lack' of something like images, do something about it. Why do you think I started The FreeBSD 'zine? I didn't do it for lack of something better to do.. I did it because of lack of documentation.. now we get about 60,000 visits a month on average, which is a hell of alot more than I ever expected. It doesn't take much to contribute, and you'll make alot more friends that way than you will complaining about what's missing ;-) -- - Jim Mock - jim@blues.ghis.net - systems administrator - ghis.NET - - work: http://www.ghis.net/ - personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ - - FreeBSD 'zine: http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - - FreeBSD: http://advocacy.freebsd.org/ - jim@advocacy.FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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