small purposal for change in installworld

[Astrodog]

On 10/3/07, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Given the inherent dangers of using cvsup, and updating from source, I
> > do not believe this... minor barrier to entry really deserves
> > consideration, and I'm sure we can all agree that it really would be
> > best to paint it blue.
>
> Even though your quiet right from a techinical stand point I think
> this is one of the attitudes that has kept FreeBSD from being
> considered by linux people... namely your right on this specific point
> but the attitude behind is likelly to be a turn off
>

I don't see the FreeBSD project as directly targeting Windows, or
Linux desktop users. The PC-BSD and DesktopBSD projects cover this
nicely. I'm not entirely certain I'd want someone who was turned off
by this behavior using vanilla FreeBSD in the first place.

--- Harrison