new FreeBSD-webpage

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Oct 6 14:49:14 PDT 2005


On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:37:40PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote:
> 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.

If you think the new design truly puts you at some kind of
disadvantage, you should formulate constructive ideas for how to fix
that.

Kris
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