Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 04:39:35 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "FreeBSD Advocacy" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <019201c292a1$f4ee67d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <200211230302.gAN32XJf088882@catflap.bishopston.net>
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Jamie writes: > That doesn't necesarrily necesarily make the > comments any less valid. It doesn't make them more valid, either. In fact, comments like that are usually devoid of any real validity, and reflect only personal preferences. > "people at microsoft" are paid to work there. > "people on freebsd-advocacy" are there because > of their experience with FreeBSD Same thing. Both groups have a bias, with rare exceptions. > But in the post I responded to, you didn't > use "usually" ... Since absolute statements are the exception rather than the rule (and I normally qualify them as such when making them, personally), "usually" can be assumed. > Such an extreme statement is not "rational > advocacy" in my opinion. It's not extreme at all. What is extreme is tossing out or avoiding working solutions in order to yield to an emotional attachment to some piece of software. I see it all the time, with people trying to do unreasonable things with Windows, UNIX, or the Mac (or any number of other software products). It's surprising how attached people become to their favorite software or even their favorite vendors; eventually they are willing to do anything to get their preferred software to work, no matter how ill-suited it might be to their purposes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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