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[Doug Barton]

Ivan Voras wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 
>> It is wrong of the PHP authors to assume that all the world is GNU /
>> Linux.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>>  I see no reason not vindicate their mistakes.
> 
> I do: these days I need to heavily justify using FreeBSD instead of 
> Linux, and "the applications you want to run don't actually work on 
> FreeBSD" is not a nice thing to say.

It depends on your audience.

> I feel that nowadays it's not a contest in popularity, it's damage 
> control phase.

Another way to look at this is that a good portion of the existing 
FreeBSD userbase relies on our higher standards for things like this, 
and to break faith with them would be a bad thing.

We are not interested in making FreeBSD more popular as a primary 
goal, we're interested in making it better as a primary goal, which 
will end up making it more popular.

Doug

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