new FreeBSD-webpage

Dan Ponte dcp1990 at neptune.atopia.net
Thu Oct 6 14:37:34 PDT 2005


On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:33:26PM -0400, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:43:36PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote:
> 
> > I second that all the way. Personally, I feel that the FreeBSD project
> > is doing too much in the way of appearing "trendy" to attract new users,
> > and it's at the expense of its existing userbase. Not to mention that
> > the old site rendered perfectly in elinks, while the new one is a mess
> > (scrolling all over the place).
> 
> Thanks for sharing your opinion, but you forgot to explain how a new
> website will make existing FreeBSD users stop using the operating
> system.
> 
> Kris
I should have worded that differently. By "expense" I didn't mean that
the existing userbase would shrink, but, rather, it would be at a
disadvantage to it. Though, I don't think that anyone would have truly
seen it as the former.
-Dan
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Dan Ponte
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The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the
law free.
		-- Henry David Thoreau
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